AUP COM Update: July 10, 2013

From the AUP President's Desk

July 10, 2013
Dear Friends,
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College of Medicine Update
The preparation of the College of Medicine (COM) is entering into a crucial stage. With the visit of the CHED Technical Panel of Medical Educations within three months, the basic requirements have to be met in time.
On the area of faculty training and development, eight (8) training sessions were already held in the campus which is being led out by Drs. Romeo and Ma. Theresa Dotollo, curriculum experts and consultants who were hired by the University. The topics they have already presented included, among others, AUP-COM Curriculum Development, Competency-Based Medical Education, Instructional Design, Formulation of Objectives, Selections and Organization of Content, Student Evaluation, Clinical and Oral Tests, Interactive Lecturing Strategies, and Rationale and Processes, Teaching Clinical Skills, Student Motivation and Reflective Practice, attended by more than thirty (30) doctors who are committed to serve as future faculty of the COM. Through the guidance of Drs. Romy and Tess Dotollo, the curriculum has been developed and the syllabi for the first year have been prepared.

This coming July 29-30 2013, I will visit Loma Linda University in California, USA and will sit down with the University leaders to finalize their offer to assist in the faculty training and other forms of support. Through my visit, the appointment schedule of Dr. Tamara Thomas, LLU Vice Dean for Academic Affairs; Dr. Daniel W. Giang, Associate Dean, Graduate Medical Education; and Dr, Barry Taylor, immediate past Vice Chancellor for Research Affairs at LLU, and emeritus professor of micro biology, to visit AUP will be finalized. The coming of these three consultants to the university in the first or second week of August 2013 will be a big help in the preparation of the Com faculty.
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Our COM building will not be finished in time for the CHED’s visit. However our target is to have the rough building shell (floors, walls, roof) constructed by October. The finishing phase will be in November to December. To meet this target, the University advances another 15 million pesos for the construction of the steel columns, beams, and roof. The construction will start in the second week of July. Another estimated 10 million pesos will be needed by August for the floors and walls of the ground floor, constructions of which will start as the columns and beams for the second floor and roof are put up, thus finishing the shell of the building by the end of September, in time for CHED’s visit. The CHED committee expects that the basic equipment such as those needed in the laboratories, simulation rooms, library books, and others purchased by August so that the items will be delivered by September.

We are still waiting for the finalization of purchase offers for our Malitlit property. We almost closed a deal two months ago but the offer was 14 million pesos less that the amount set by the Board. We do not know why in God’s timetable we have not sold the property yet. Meanwhile, we are starting a massive fund raising campaign that will raise a total of at least 90 million pesos by June 2014, to be raised from the gifts and support of our faculty, students, parents, alumni, and friends. We will explain more about the fund raising campaign in our next news release.
We continue to thank all of you who have already given their share, and for those who are saving and making sacrifices to help out of the abundance of your heart. We also appreciate the contributions of those who assist in the fundraising by helping us contact people and organize events and activities to establish support for the project.

Sincerely yours,
Francisco D. Gayoba, DTheol
President