Posted on November 20, 2012
ROJoson Legacy to the Philippine with Focus on Medical Education and Hospital Administration
November 20, 2012
In January 31, 2011, I made a document entitled ROJOSON’s Strategic Life Planning for 2011 to 2019.
Within this document, I identified the legacies I wanted to leave behind when I leave this earth.
ROJ Legacies
ROJ Family Legacy
ROJ Patients Legacy
ROJ Students Legacy
ROJ Philippines Legacy
ROJ Manila Doctors Hospital Legacy
ROJ OMMC Department of Surgery Legacy
ROJ Philippine General Hospital Department of Surgery and GSI Division Legacy
ROJUniversity of the Philippines College of Medicine Legacy
I tried to concretize my legacy plan using the following table below as a framework and as a guide in identifying and defining my past, present and future activities and projects as well as what I should consider as the end-points or targets in establishing my legacies.
ROJ 2011 Legacy Plan
Every so often, at least twice a year, I reviewed my Strategic Life Planning for 2011-2019.
In this document, I will review my “ROJ Philippines Legacy” with focus on Medical Education and Hospital Administration.
As of today, November 20, 2012, I will consider the following as my main end-points or targets in my Philippine Legacy.
Helping 4 provincial government hospitals outside Metro Manila.
Helping 3 medical schools outside Metro Manila.
Helping 3 private hospitals outside Metro Manila.
There may be other activities and projects that I have done in the past, am doing at present, and will do before 2019 that may have impact on the health of the Filipino people such as my Education for Health Development of the Philippines which I started in 1989. . All of these will also be included in my Philippine Legacy. However, the 3 items listed above will be my main indicators.
In my Philippine legacy, I used a pattern of inclusion, that of at least one institution in Luzon, the Visayas, and Mindanao. Eventually, those institutions in Metro Manila that I helped will be included.
Helping 4 provincial government hospitals outside Metro Manila
This I have achieved already from 1989 to 1991 when I was the Director of the Postgraduate Institute of Medicine at the University of the Philippine College of Medicine.
The four provincial government hospitals that I helped are the following:
Luzon – Isabela Provincial Hospital in Ilagan, Isabela
Visayas – Dr. Rafael Tumbokon Memorial Hospital in Kalibo, Aklan
Mindanao – Misamis Occidental ProvincialHospital in Oroquieta City
Mindanao – South Cotobato Provincial Hospital in Koronadal City
Below is a write-up of the project:
The DOH-UPCM Postgraduate Circuit Course Project was launched in October 1989. The project had for its general objective to provide continuing medical education to DOH physicians. The specific objective was to promote expertise in the medical staff of the government provincial hospitals.
The project started with the DOH identifying four pilot provincial hospitals which would serve as centers for the postgraduate course. One hospital selected was located in Luzon, the Isabela Provincial Hospital in Ilagan, Isabela. Another hospital selected was located in the Visayas, Dr. Rafael Tumbokon Memorial Hospital in Kalibo, Aklan. The other two hospitals selected are located in Mindanao, the Misamis Occidental Provincial Hospital in Oroquieta City and the South Cotobato Provincial Hospital in Koronadal City.
The project called for the holding of three postgraduate courses per year per center at 4-month intervals. The Institute would design the course content and the teaching program as well as provide the faculty.
Helping 3 medical schools outside Metro Manila
This I have achieved already from 1994 to 2003. I helped establish the Zamboanga Medical School Foundation in 1994 (its new name is Ateneo de Zamboanga University School of Medicine). Here, I helped in promoting a problem-based, competency-base, and community-based medical curriculum. It is the first medical school in the country that produces a dual degree program, MD-MPH. After Zamboanga, I went to help Southwestern University College of Medicine in Cebu using the medical curriculum that I promoted in Zamboanga Medical School Foundation. Almost simultaneously, I went to help BicolChristianCollege of Medicine in Legazpi, Albay.
Thus, the 3 medical schools that I helped outside Metro Manila were the following:
Mindanao – Zamboanga Medical School Foundation, Zamboanga City (1993-1996)
Visayas – Southwestern University College of Medicine, Cebu (1995 – 2000)
Luzon – Bicol Christian College of Medicine, Legazpi, Albay (1995 – 2003)
Helping 3 private hospitals outside Metro Manila.
As of November 18, 2012, I have committed to help Ciudad Medical Zamboanga on its journey to become an excellent hospital. I am still scouting for a hospital in Luzon (outside Metro Manila) and one in the Visayas.
Updated statement on March 15, 2015 - I helped Ciudad Medical Zamboanga achieved the Philippine Quality Award in 2013, the first hospital in the Philippines to get such an award.
I still have to help 2 private hospitals outside Metro Manila become excellent hospitals. Being connected with Manila Doctors Hospital, the main exclusion criterion for helping is a private hospital within Metro Manila. Thus, I will only help Manila Doctors Hospital in Metro Manila as long as I am still connected with it.
Updated statement on March 15, 2015 - In April 2014, I am no longer the Senior Vice-president for Corporate Affairs of Manila Doctors Hospital. Thus, I am now free to help other private hospitals within Metro Manila.
Within Metro Manila
I have helped and still helping the University of the Philippines College of Medicine, the Philippine General Hospital, Manila Doctors Hospital, and Ospital ng Maynila Medical Center (as of March 15, 2015).
ROJoson Teaching in Master of Hospital Administration in the UP College of Public Health
I have been a lecturer from 1992-2005, 2008 to present, both regular classes and short courses. I enjoy this. My personal objective and advocacy: I teach MHA so that Philippine hospitals will be managed well for the benefit for the Filipino people. I teach MHA for the benefit of the Filipino patients. This is part of my Education for Health Development in the Philippines Advocacy.
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ROJOSON Lectures in UP-CPH
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(Will continue to refine this document.)
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