The delivery of the instruction along with the engagement of continuous scholarly activities, research and community services are the basic tasks that are prepared and completed by each faculty member.
Excellence In Instruction
A team of competent, committed and compassionate faculty members addresses the educational mission.
Given the diverse group of learners comes a diverse set of teaching strategies that will lead to a satisfying instructional satisfaction.
The Section of Anatomy seeks to educate this generation of learners with a variety of learning tools including an integration of Body Map, Cadaveric Dissection, Anatomage and Plastinated Cadavers.
This enhances the students’ understanding on basic and clinical anatomy with an efficient use of laboratory time.
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The classrooms modified as team-based learning centers are highly considered as learning spaces for face-to-face interaction between students and teachers..
As learning come in different ways, several teaching methods are adapted which includes lecture-based formats, team- based learning, problem based learning and small group discussions.
Such methods run through the spectrum of student involvement which increases both student understanding and learning experiences.
A combination of techniques are employed by all educators to facilitate learning process more effectively and efficiently.
The Objective Structured Clinical Examination and Standardized Patient Program are evaluative tools of students’ performance in a given clinical setting.
Integrated in the senior year curriculum, students perform a variety of tasks within a specified time period against a certain set of criteria.
This strategy allows for an objective and precise student assessment of knowledge, skills and attitudes for a wide range of clinical scenarios.
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The Simulation Center provides a safe environment for the training of students’ clinical, technical and interpersonal skills.
This learning strategy bridges the gap between classroom learning and real-life clinical experience, Students are given hands-on encounters in the absence of putting actual patients at risk.
It further provides an assessment of the students’ levels of competence as well as feedback from faculty preceptors. Students are able to master their skills by learning from their mistakes from a protected environment.
This state-of-the-art facility provides several types of simulation including standardized patients, task trainers, virtual reality and human patient simulation.
The use of mobile clinics in the medical curriculum provides a meaningful experience for students to assimilate classroom learning and clinical operations.
This is regarded as a valuable teaching-learning tool for clinical and community skills. As a community-based platform, this creates ongoing partnerships between the academe and the community towards healthy Filipino communities enjoying quality lives.
The use of mobile clinics in the medical curriculum provides a meaningful experience for students to assimilate classroom learning and clinical operations.
The Arts and Sciences of Medicine and Skills Laboratory Sessions provide an avenue where skills are introduced in preparation for their clinical years.
It is in these areas that proper methods are taught along with basic patient-physician communication skills.
Evaluation of student learning is a joint effort between students and faculty to gauge learning in progress.
Different strategies have been employed to evaluate students at different areas of learning.
At the cognitive level, paperless examinations shortens the examination cycle. Safety and security of questions are improved with efficient use of time and other related resources.
Virtual patient as a learning tool complements clinical training as it evaluates clinical reasoning and decision making.
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The library is a central hub for the whole educational community.
Different strategies have been employed to evaluate students at different areas of learning.
At the cognitive level, paperless examinations shortens the examination cycle. Safety and security of questions are improved with efficient use of time and other related resources.
Virtual patient as a learning tool complements clinical training as it evaluates clinical reasoning and decision making.
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The library is a central hub for the whole educational community.
Student mentoring programs are in place to cater the individual needs of the students as they progress in the succeeding academic years.
These allow students to seek assistance to faculty mentors towards a meaningful integration of student learning, behavior, perception and attitudes.
“The pearls of DMSF are its teachers that brought educational core elements to the students heart and augmented a unique teach-student relationship.”
– Student
“Mentoring is an opportunity to empathize with the students as well as to assist them towards good insights leading towards a specific action plan.”
– Mentor
“DMSF defines an integrated medical curriculum as ‘core values of FIRE ‘which stands for Faith in God, Integrity Respect and Excellence.”
– Student
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“DMSF ensures that their students are equipped with all the knowledge, skills and attitude that is expected of a Five-star Physician”
DMSF has accommodated the visual, auditory and textual learners.”
“The feedback helps me to critically assess my resources and be meticulous with the quality of information that I have, hence improving my technique in basic sciences and in the clinics.”
“The College of Medicine offers a solid curriculum which focuses on theoretical knowledge building and clinical skills enhancement prior to clinical exposure.”
“Professors are actively practicing clinicians that have the qualifications and experience to ensure that students learn only from the best.”
“It has become an inspiration and a depth of learning and knowledge source for locals as well as for international students.”
”being a product of this institution, I can definitely say that the curriculum will equip you with all the basic knowledge, skills and the exposure that you need before pursuing your internship and residency training.”
Student activities foster friendships and solidarity.
The school year, though loaded with academic agenda, becomes even more exciting as campus activities and programs are set to support both curricular and extra-curricular events.
• Intramurals
• Foundation Day
• Club Day
• Med Night
It also provides opportunities for students to develop leadership and social responsibility.
Overseen by the Office of Student Affairs, such experiences enable students to connect to the whole community of DMSFI.
• International Class Day
• Synapse
• Association of Philippine Medical Colleges Student Network
Excellence In Research
Research is built in the fabric of the curriculum.
With the aim of providing optimal solutions to important medical questions and problems, research work leads to the provision of patient care at its best.
Following the steps of the scientific methods, students as well as faculty members continue to provide relevant outputs as part of their training and continuing medical education.
A variety of research areas are being done including but not limited to physiology, pharmacology and community medicine. Networking and collaborative studies involve drug development, infectious diseases, forensic sciences and genomics.
Excellence In Community Service
Guided by the principles of community oriented primary care, community medicine holds an integral part of the medical curriculum.
Strengthened with community diagnosis and research outputs, the college had its share of leading the people towards a community-based.
This is regarded as the highest and the most liberating model of primary health care the ultimate goal of community medicine.
Barangays served per year
50
Community Diagnosis per year
276
Health Action Plans per year
276
Community Research per year
276
Unveiled
The ephemeral inhabitant of this paradoxical terrain
Wrestling with reason or foolishness
Seeking to grasp a point of certainty
The character I must fulfill.
A first shaft of light from a day gone by
Unearthen by the helm of myriad shares
Now and again chasing sunbeams of the stands
Sifting my glow amidst of them.
Each splinter of the whole throws something into the silo
Paralleling endowments collect, create into one
Variance is discreet but comes out unfastened
And the world finds its solace there.
A hidden solitary essence among the scores of beings
Toiling on with the pure mark through the nucleus of the mind
Meeting the real, ardent to nature until the luminary’s
descent Stands the difference I embrace in time.
– Alumni ’07
