There was a hitch in the UPMAS Homecoming Souvenir on my write-up as a Distinguished Alumnus Award. I just discovered it when my classmate Pinky Agustin aka Laureen Cunanan congratulated me on the evening of December 19, 2019 saying that (she) after reading the write-up on me, that I really deserved the award. I had not seen the write-up on the Souvenir brochure until just prior to the formal and actual awarding at about 10 pm on December 19, 2019. A week before, the secretariat called me up asking for a copy of the summary that I submitted before. They were preparing for or finalizing the Souvenir brochure. Since I have all my nomination documents in this website, I told her to search for it under "Summary." She responded and said she found it already. I thought everything was in order already and that the secretariat would be the one finalizing it. They never showed me a copy of the write-up. I did not have a chance to review it.

The write-up in the Souvenir brochure was lifted from the executive summary that I submitted in 2005 for the Philippine Medical Association's Dr. Jose P. Rizal Memorial Award. Yes, it is more comprehensive than the summary that I submitted to 2019 UPMAS Publication Committee (which had a limit of 200 words only). However, it is not updated (2005 vs 2019).

I surmised that the summary that I submitted to the 2019 UPMAS Publication Committee was too short and the Committee wanted to put in more contents. Since it did not have time to consult me anymore, it decided to just use the executive summary that I submitted to the PMA in 2005 which was more comprehensive and it basically contained my outstanding achievements that were deserving for the Distinguish Alumnus Award. The only problem is it is not updated. I have accomplished more from 2005 to 2019.

I will forgive the hitch and just inform the public of what happened.

I will just tell the public to read this website to get the full information.

https://sites.google.com/site/rojosonupmas2019/home

Dr Rey

19dec22

Actual write-up in 2019 UPMAS Souvenir Brochure.

Here is the summary that I submitted to the 2019 UPMAS:

Summary of Nomination (200 words)

Dr. Reynaldo Joson is a distinguished 5-star physician graduate of UPCM who can serve as role model for both graduates and undergraduates. He has been previously recognized by UPMAS as Outstanding Educator in 2003; by UPAA as Professional Awardee in Medicine in 2004; and by UP Manila as recipient of Centennial Professorial Chair in 2008. Even after his mandatory retirement from government service in 2014 and up to now, at age 70, he has continued to enhance his competencies as an educator, surgical specialist, researcher, manager and community health problem solver. He has continued to have exceptional, innovative and pioneering achievements in medical-surgical education; patient-centered care management; community service through outreach medical-surgical education; health action research; hospital administration and quality management system; and hospital disaster preparedness program. Over the years, he has expanded his reach to potential beneficiaries of his advocacies through use of blended learning, a combination of face-to-face and online learning. He has maximally utilized blogs and social media for this outreach educational program to his students and the public. He is now strengthening his advocacies in patient-centered care management, cost-effective treatment and intentional-living projects to contribute to the recently enacted universal health care program in the Philippines.

Here is the executive summary that I submitted to the PMA Dr. Jose P. Rizal Memorial Award in 2005 which appear in the Souvenir brochure:

Executive Summary

2005

Since 1981, after his graduation from his surgical residency, Dr. Reynaldo O. Joson has been living a life reflective of that of Dr. Jose P. Rizal, a community-oriented physician, a medical educator, and a health researcher who constantly strived for excellence and quality services to his community, patients, and students in the Philippines.

As a community-oriented physician, he worked in government hospitals (Philippine General Hospital and Ospital ng Maynila Medical Center) to cater to the needs of the indigent Filipino patients. He conducted and facilitated educational training programs to physicians in government hospitals in Luzon, in the Visayas, and in Mindanao. He created a surgeon-to-surgeon-less community program with a diploma in general surgery and health profession education. He promoted an innovative medical curriculum, specifically a community-based and problem-based learning curriculum in medical schools in Luzon (Bicol Christian College of Medicine), in the Visayas (Southwestern University College of Medicine), and in Mindanao (Zamboanga Medical School Foundation). He conducted researches that promoted cost-effective management for the Filipino patients and that led to advocacies against unnecessary operations, procedures, and health practices, such as no to routine circumcision, no to routine mammography, no to unnecessary normal appendectomy, no to unnecessary fibrocystic breast operations, and beware of santol seed swallowing.

As a medical educator, he pioneered innovative medical education in the Philippines, specifically on problem-based learning and distance and online education in medicine and surgery. He has more than 20 educational websites in the Internet. He established and developed the first Head and Neck Surgical Oncology and Surgical Oncology Fellowship Programs in the Philippines. In the 2004 Asia-Pacific Conference on Problem-based Learning in Health Sciences held from September 22-24, 2004, he had 19 papers presented that covered innovative teaching-learning activities, evaluation and educational management strategies. On October 7, 2004, he received the 2004 Asian Hospital Management Award for his project in human resource development in the Department of Surgery of Ospital ng Maynila Medical Center, the first government hospital ever to win such an international award. On September 9, 2005, he will receive the 2005 Asian Corporate Social Responsibility (runner-up) Award for his project “Conducive Practice Program for Surgical Residents of the Department of Surgery of Ospital ng Maynila Medical Center.”

As a researcher, from 1976 to present, he has more than 90 scientific papers; more than 80 scientific books, primers, and course packs; 44 published papers with 4 international publications; and 16 research awards. He has been doing researches not only in clinical medicine, but also in hospital administration and health profession education. He pioneered action researches in medicine and health-process-evidence-based clinical practice guidelines in the Philippines to make researches and guidelines useful and relevant in solving the country’s health problems.

In 2004, he was one of the five finalists in the 14^th Dr. J. P. Rizal Memorial Awards for Academe and Research.

As a clinician, he has been an advocate of quality and holistic patient care. He has been the chairperson of the Quality Council of Manila Doctors Hospital since 1998. He pioneered patient support group in the Philippines through the Philippine Stoma Association in 1979 and the MDH-Cancer Crusaders Club in 1988 (the longest existing cancer support group in the Philippines).

As an administrator, he is pioneering balanced scorecard in hospitals and clinical departments in the Philippines. As chairperson of the Department of Surgery of the Ospital ng Maynila Medical Center, in 4 years’ time, he was able to transform it into a model department of surgery in the Philippines, one with international recognition, as attested by the 17 educational papers presented in the 2004 Asia-Pacific Conference in Problem-based Learning and winning the 2004 Asian Hospital Management Award and the 2005 Asian Corporate Social Responsibility Award. Under his stewardship, in February, 2005, the Department of Surgery of Ospital ng Maynila Medical Center got an Anvil Award for its wholistic social responsibility program.

ROJ@19dec22