Welcome to the University of the Philippines Manila, one of seven constituent universities of the UP System and the Philippines' leading university in the health sciences.
UP Manila is located in historic Ermita, Manila east of Manila Bay which was UP's birthplace in 1908.
As the Philippines' health science center, UP Manila fulfills its role of improving the health of Filipinos by constantly ensuring the relevance and excellence of its academic programs, generating significant knowledge and technologies through its researches, and rendering varied forms of health, training and extension services to Filipino communities. The programs and services address the priority health concerns of Filipinos and are being undertaken through close partnership and collaboration with the government, policy makers, other health institutions and professional health groups.
The health colleges, units, programs and facilities that comprise UP Manila include the nine degree granting units that offer a total of 25 undergraduate programs and 33 graduate courses; the Philippine General Hospital, the largest government hospital in the country which provides health care services to about half a million patients a year from all over the country and trains hundreds of medical interns, residents and fellows, and students of allied medical professions; the National Institutes of Health, which serves as the coordinating unit for health research programs, projects and activities; and several academic and administrative support offices.
UP Manila develops programs that serve as models and benchmarks of health education and health care in the Philippines. Many of the pioneering curricular programs are offered only in the University even until now, such as the Integrated Arts and Medicine Program (seven-year medical program); Master of Rehabilitation Science; MS in Clinical Audiology; MA in Health Policy Studies; the step-ladder curriculum of the School of Health Sciences, its unit based in Leyte south of Manila, which consists of integrated courses on barangay health work, community health work, midwifery, nursing, and community medicine; and recent offerings that include the MS in Medical Informatics and the Diploma in Bioethics, a joint program with UP Diliman's College of Social Science and Philosophy.
For years now, the university's graduates have been occupying positions of leadership in government, private, and nongovernmental institutions and professional organizations where they exercise a great deal of influence and advocacy in determining directions and policies on national health care program planning and implementation.
In research, UP Manila has been pursuing its mandate by generating and disseminating knowledge and technologies that can effectively contribute to the improvement of the quality of life of Filipinos. Its research outputs have greatly influenced the thrusts and directions of national health care programs and have been used as basis for policy formulation and implementation.
Researches which exerted the biggest national impact on Philippine health care include several research-based program recommendations generated through the national surveys on blindness and the studies on Hepatitis B, diarrhea, and common parasitic infections, which were adopted by the Department of Health; commercialization of five herbal medicinal formulations (lagundi, yerba buena, tsaang gubat, sambong and akapulko); textbooks and instructional manuals which are also used by other academic institutions; and very recently, the evaluation by NIH of the performance of PhilHealth, the country's national health insurance program .
The excellence of UP Manila's health courses is proven by the consistent 100% passing of its graduates in nearly all health licensure examinations every year, their placement in the top 10/20 posts of each exam, and consistently garnering the highest national passing rate among all health universities and colleges in the country, a feat which has been recognized many times by the Professional Regulation Commission.
UP Manila is located in historic Ermita, Manila east of Manila Bay which was UP's birthplace in 1908.
As the Philippines' health science center, UP Manila fulfills its role of improving the health of Filipinos by constantly ensuring the relevance and excellence of its academic programs, generating significant knowledge and technologies through its researches, and rendering varied forms of health, training and extension services to Filipino communities. The programs and services address the priority health concerns of Filipinos and are being undertaken through close partnership and collaboration with the government, policy makers, other health institutions and professional health groups.
The health colleges, units, programs and facilities that comprise UP Manila include the nine degree granting units that offer a total of 25 undergraduate programs and 33 graduate courses; the Philippine General Hospital, the largest government hospital in the country which provides health care services to about half a million patients a year from all over the country and trains hundreds of medical interns, residents and fellows, and students of allied medical professions; the National Institutes of Health, which serves as the coordinating unit for health research programs, projects and activities; and several academic and administrative support offices.
UP Manila develops programs that serve as models and benchmarks of health education and health care in the Philippines. Many of the pioneering curricular programs are offered only in the University even until now, such as the Integrated Arts and Medicine Program (seven-year medical program); Master of Rehabilitation Science; MS in Clinical Audiology; MA in Health Policy Studies; the step-ladder curriculum of the School of Health Sciences, its unit based in Leyte south of Manila, which consists of integrated courses on barangay health work, community health work, midwifery, nursing, and community medicine; and recent offerings that include the MS in Medical Informatics and the Diploma in Bioethics, a joint program with UP Diliman's College of Social Science and Philosophy.
For years now, the university's graduates have been occupying positions of leadership in government, private, and nongovernmental institutions and professional organizations where they exercise a great deal of influence and advocacy in determining directions and policies on national health care program planning and implementation.
In research, UP Manila has been pursuing its mandate by generating and disseminating knowledge and technologies that can effectively contribute to the improvement of the quality of life of Filipinos. Its research outputs have greatly influenced the thrusts and directions of national health care programs and have been used as basis for policy formulation and implementation.
Researches which exerted the biggest national impact on Philippine health care include several research-based program recommendations generated through the national surveys on blindness and the studies on Hepatitis B, diarrhea, and common parasitic infections, which were adopted by the Department of Health; commercialization of five herbal medicinal formulations (lagundi, yerba buena, tsaang gubat, sambong and akapulko); textbooks and instructional manuals which are also used by other academic institutions; and very recently, the evaluation by NIH of the performance of PhilHealth, the country's national health insurance program .
The excellence of UP Manila's health courses is proven by the consistent 100% passing of its graduates in nearly all health licensure examinations every year, their placement in the top 10/20 posts of each exam, and consistently garnering the highest national passing rate among all health universities and colleges in the country, a feat which has been recognized many times by the Professional Regulation Commission.
source: University of the Philippines, Manila
