ST LUKE'S IS PH'S TOP SCHOOL FOR MDS
St. Luke's College of Medicine - William H. Quasha-Memorial has kept its 100% passing rate in the latest Physician Licensure Exam taken last August making it once again to the top of the Best Performing Medical Schools in the Philippines. St. Luke's graduate Dr. Rayan A. Oliva also copped the third place with a score of 88.67 percent.
The perfect score was not the first for the school as St. Luke's has consistently been in the perfect territory for first time takers since School Year 2007-2008. This achievement has elevated St. Luke's to be one of the best performing schools of medicine in the Philippines in the past eight years.
"We have been consistently realizing our goal to be the best medical school in the country. Our screening process ensures that we only have the best and the brightest in our fold. We also offer the most number of medical scholarship grants that is one of the most comprehensive in content . Our scholarship retention scheme is also the most stringent and we provide one of the best foundations for basic and clinical research for our students," said School Dean Dr. Brigido L Carandang, Jr.
St. Luke's College of Medicine - William H. Quasha Memorial was established in 1994 as a medical education institution of St. Luke's Medical Center. Like the hospital, it also aims to be a leader in innovative medical institution by providing education to the best and the brightest students through a unique system of academic and scholarship programs, producing graduates who are primed towards specialization in the pursuit of excellent healthcare and world-class technology
St. Luke's administration, faculty, staff and graduates work to serve the wholistic medical needs of all sectors of society. As such, the school attracts students who have a strong desire to develop into exceptional clinicians and/or academicians, and become leaders of the medical profession, and innovators in biomedical science, clinical care, research, public health and safety.
Dr. Carandang noted that the school is proud to have the most subjects in basic and clinical research than any other medical institutions in the country that are designed to hone the country's top clinicians and researchers. Medical students from outside the Philippines are also welcome to do clinical observership in the school.