Be A Scholar: Be a Pinoy MD

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Entering medical school can be very expensive. This is one of the factors that has helped dwindle the enrollees for the medical schools nationwide. Wanting to address the possible scarcity in medical students and eventually medical doctors, the Department of Health, together with Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office, are offering full scholarships to students who are interested to become doctors. Doc Christine, former DTTB and now working in the HHRDB of the DOH, just emailed me about the pinoy MD program of the Department of Health. Perhaps, someone out there might be interested. Here is the entire email about the Pinoy MD Program.

PLEASE SPREAD THE NEWS!
You may know someone who is interested.

The Philippine Charity Swepstakes Office and the Department of Health is offering 100 scholarships for medical school each year.

Pinoy MD 5-year Scholarship Package includes: Tuition fees, lab and misc fees and semestral book allowances, semestral uniform allowances, daily board and lodging allowance, daily travel allowance.
Member Medical Schools are:

UP Manila, NCR
PLM, NCR
EAC, NCR
Fatima, NCR
Cagayan State University, Tuguegarao
West Visayas State University, Iloilo City
University of St. La Salle, Bacolod City
Iloilo Doctors College of Med, Iloilo City
Southwestern State University, Cebu City
UP Manila School of Health Sciences, Leyte
Mindanao State University, Iligan City
Davao Medical School Foundation, Davao City

Please contact the Pinoy MD Hotline at Amy or Erick of the Health Human Resource Development Bureau at (02) 781-1723 or 743-8301 loc.4204











Comments

dr_clairebear said…
hi, fellow pinoy doc!

i'm dr_clairebear. my site Chronicles from the Middle of Nowhere will be hosting a blog carnival called the Blog Rounds for Filipino medical professionals this week, and i would like to invite you to join. the topic for this week is "At a Crossroads." You can read more about it here.

I hope you can join us! Your perspective of making the choice to practice as a DTTB will be quite interesting to read about. :)

thanks!
Mar 26, 2008, 5:06:00 AM
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