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FOUNDED in 1980 through the sustaining initiative of Leyte Governor Benjamin Romualdez, the major thrust of the college is to train students to a high level of competence as primary health care physicians not only in the region but also, and especially, in other depressed areas as well.
The college includes the usual departments: gross-clinical anatomy,
biochemistry and human nutrition, physiology, pathology, microbiology
and parasitology, pharmacology and
The four-year curriculum of the college leading to the degree of
Doctor of Medicine has been geared and designed to afford its students
a firm grasp on the basic sciences, enriched and reinforced by actual
clinical training.
The first building of the school was located in a six-hectare lot, a
twin-storey brick building that faces
the major thoroughfares of
Justice Romualdez and Sto. Niņo Streets. At present, the college is presently located in a three-storey concrete and naturally-ventilated building within the Bethany Hospital compound in the City of Tacloban. It can easily be reached either by jeepneys, or motorcabs at any point of the city, while Tacloban is accessible by boats, planes and luxurious buses from Manila and other major cities and capitals of the country. |
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ON September 25, 1999, the RTR Hospital was blessed and inaugurated. Located beside the RTRMF College of Science in Calanipawan, Tacloban City. The spacious hospital facility with modern and functional architecture is equipped with state-of-the-art medical, surgical, laboratory and radiologic equipments. It has also a rehabilitation department. The hospital is a boon to our patients, staff and medical/paramedical students. Rural practice has always been stressed and eight months of the clinical clerkship is spent at the Eastern Visayas Regional Medical Center, the regional hospital whose patients come mostly from the rural areas. Today, most of it's graduates have lived up to this commitment to the community by returning to work in EVRMC and in various government hospitals in the region.
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Strongly guided by its basic philosophy that essential medical care is
God's given right to all people, it upholds steadfastly that good
health is primordial to the preservation of the Philippine political
and national integrity. It also believes that health maintenance is
not only an institutional concern of hospitals, medical centers and
colleges, but of all people, and is a basic requirement to growth and
prosperity. As a learning institution, it strongly believes on quality
medical education, and thus, carefully selects in the tradition of
service and excellence of its students and faculty.
therapeutics, preventive and
community medicine, surgery, pediatrics, medicine, obstetrics and
gynecology, and EENT. Each department is headed and staffed by
highly-competent chairman with equally competent and complementing
leading practitioners and professors.
The First Board of Trustees was composed of Dr.
Constantino P. Manahan, chairman; Dr. Roque Yutangco, president; Dr.
Juanita Zagala, treasurer, Dr. Anacoreta Dacuycuy, asst. treasurer and
Dr. Vicente Arguelles, Dr. Jose Caedo, Dr. Manuel Roxas, Dr. Julio
Dolorico, Atty. Tantuico, members.With the death of the Chairman, Dr.
Constantino P. Manahan, reorganization of the BOT took place. Dr.
Romeo Gustilo assumed the chairmanship with Dr. Jose Caedo as
vice-chairman, Dr. Roque Yutangco as president, Dr. Anacoreta Dacuycuy
as treasurer and Dr. Vicente Tantuico, Atty. Andrea dela Cueva, as
members.
The
school also underlines
the importance of modern medical technology by giving the students
opportunity to train for four months at the Makati Medical Center, one
of the leading general hospitals in the country.