GENERAL SANTOS CITY, September 27 – The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) formally awarded on Friday Certificates of Program Compliance (COPC) to three degree programs of the Mindanao State University--General Santos City, boosting the school’s potentials as a leading institution in medicine, agriculture and fisheries.
CHED also turned-over to MSU-Gensan advanced medical equipment for simulation-based education (SBE) of the College of Medicine, during ceremonies at the School of Graduate Studies (SGS) ‘s AVR of MSU-CETD.
photo by Guia Rebollido
“Today marks the culmination of the initiatives that we did. First, we already have a certificate of compliance for the college of medicine–that means you meet the necessary standards to produce a good doctor,” said CHED chairperson Dr. Prospero De Vera III.
A COPC is recognition that specific degree programs being offered by state universities and colleges (SUCs), and local universities and colleges (LUCs), are fully compliant with the policies, standards, and guidelines of CHED.
“We’re making education free, we should guarantee that the education we’re giving is quality education,” De Vera remarked. He pointed out that the implementation of the COPC has aided CHED in providing access to quality education.
De Vera who personally visited the MSU-Gensan, was given a look-see tour of the COM’s advanced medical equipment which include among others a plastinated cadaver, virtual dissecting table, task trainers, and high-fidelity mannequins which aid students’ learning and training in clinical skills through simulation-based learning.
“Medicine is becoming more technology-orientated and dapat hindi tayo mapag-iwanan. Hindi na pwede yung mano-mano, kailangan technology-assisted na talaga ang medical vocation,”. De Vera explained.
According to De Vera, his principle was simple, “kung ano ang meron sa private schools, dapat meron din sa public universities.”
He said that these state-of-the-art equipment allows students a facility to improve their skills and because it is simulation-based, they “can do these exercises repeatedly, make mistakes, and nobody is hurt.”
A recipient of two CHED grants
MSU-Gensan’s COM equipment was funded through CHED’s Institutional Development and Innovation Grant (IDIG) 2022 and the Leading the Advancement of Knowledge in Agriculture and Sciences (LAKAS) program, amounting to a total of 89,332,184.88 pesos.
“MSU-Gensan got more money than the rest of the public universities kasi dalawa yung projects. Kasi meron yung compliance with standards, merong high level research,” the chairman explained.
According to De Vera, IDIGs are grants given by CHED to schools to help them comply with standards and pass the COPC, while the LAKAS program involves choosing one top university from each region and linking them with foreign universities, such as the University of Adelaide in Australia, to do high level activities.
MSU-Gensan is one of the recipients of LAKAS, together with University of the Philippines (UP) Manila, and Western State Visayas University (WVSU).
According to De Vera, he has instructed these three universities to cascade their skills to the other public universities so that over time there will be more medical programs across the country.
“Yung tatlo na may connection sa University of Adelaide, we will now select other medical schools na sa sunod, yun ang inyong tututukan,” he said.
A new program?
“Today is actually only the start of better things to come. I expect that MSU-Gensan will be the leader in medical education in Mindanao because you are given the opportunity and the support that is not available to the other medical programs,”
The chairman affirmed the students that their commitment in CHED is to continue to produce world-class doctors who will have the option and the capacity to develop and practice their profession all over the world.
“Rest assured, your medical education is at par with the best universities all over the world,” he remarked.
De Vera also hinted that he hopes MSU-Gensan will open a College of Nursing.
“That’s one of the things that I have been pushing for. The president has instructed me to address the nursing crisis,” he said.
De Vera assured that they will have the same access to the same equipment that the existing program has.
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