Iloilo City (1 December 2005) -- The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) is urged to take appropriate measure on the deteriorating standard of education in medical and allied
courses.
The House Committee on Civil Service and professional Regulation made the appeal based on the CHED report which stated that the national passing percentage of medicine licensure examination rose to 75.16 percent in 1995 and dropped to an all-time low of 56.26 percent in 2003, a big difference of 18.90 percent.
Pampanga Congressman Francis Nepomuceno expressed alarm that the trend of passers is decreasing enormously: 74.65 percent in 1996; 71.04 percent in 1997; 64.92 percent in 1998; 69.15 percent, 1999; 65.03 percent, 2000; 61.04, 2001; and, 63.18 percent, 2002.
Nepomuceno also noted that
graduates of medical and allied degrees have nose dived. From a high of 60,058 students graduated in 1992-1993, it decreased to 33,547 in 2002-2003, or more than 50 percent margin.
The congressman said that CHED should padlock the medical schools around the country that failed to provide quality
education, because it is not fair for parents to shoulder the burden of high cost of tuition and fees.
Meanwhile, Nepomuceno said he was disappointed that rural folks have no longer access to medical care because most of rural health doctors have shifted to nursing and opted to seek greener pasture abroad.
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