Coming home after 25 years of medical education
Alumni homecomings will always be a gathering of some sort, recalling bad and good memories in the past.
After the delivery of the “controversial” “Happy Doctor” lecture in the halls of IDCMI, now I can say that I am very “proud graduate of IDCMI” and that in one way or another will always make a “big” difference in the field of medical practice. It was not just an opportunity and a privilege but an honor to speak in front of its students, residents and consultants. Without IDCMI, we can never fulfill our goals in life as doctors and physicians. The medical school has taught us the basic knowledge of medical and clinical sciences and placed more emphasis on the diseases and illnesses of the human body.
There were a lot of encouragements for further training and fellowship in specific organ systems like the lungs, heart, or the endocrine system but there was never any encouragement on subjects that were geared on the totally of the human being dwelling on his feelings and emotions. We may have called it a traditional way of teaching medicine but it was much better compared to the “PBL” method. At least, we can still be “humanly” in touch with our patients.
IDCMI may not have produced “some” “Christian Doctors” but in our personal ways we have already started to understand and direct our “care”towards our ailing patients. (Remember, I never mentioned treatment or cure but that magic word again is CARE.) One thing that I have learned early in medical school (IDCMI) which I have picked up while reading some pocketbooks on healing suggests that physicians try to see the face of our “Lord Jesus Christ” on the face of their patients. Maybe with this, we can be more sympathetic or much more concerned and dedicated.
The medical education that we have learned from IDCMI had further advanced us in our different fields of specialties. Along the way, we have individually refined ourselves on how we “care” for our patients. We can never say that there is nothing to look back but we all realized that there was a lot of things that IDCMI had gave us. We may have the opportunity to distinguish between the medical practice of a private medical institution from a government hospital. Thus, we can make a choice where to set up our medical practice.
Having Iloilo Doctors Hospital as its training ground, it has provided its medical students especially the junior interns exposure to the newest technologies in the field of diagnostics. Also, it has given them a good “hands-on” experience due to an ample supply of service patients. The teachings that we have all learned from IDCMI and IDH were the “max”.
I suggest that graduates of IDCMI should support all there medical graduates so that they can also share their skills and experiences in there own field of specialties. This is just a way we can repay back the medical education that our alma mater had bestowed on us.
They( training hospitals) should not shut down its doors on its medical graduates, whose main goal is to bring in more patients and diagnostics to the hospital and to share its expertise to all learning students in Medicine without stepping on some “sensitive” toes in the medical institution.
IDCMI had come long way producing some brilliant minds, the best in their field of practice. The medical school itself made its mark on all its medical graduates which is worth coming home to.
The silver celebration will continue until February 2007. I encourage all the medical graduates of IDCMI to please drop by the college and just look around on the changes in the medical school. Beside the college is the ongoing construction of a building expansion. Even how heavy is your load---on your back and shoulder or deep inside-- the College of Medicine of IDCMI is worth coming back to.
If the medical institution (hospital) will close its doors on “some” of its graduates, then rest assured the medical school (IDCMI) will always open its doors to all its alumni. HAPPY HOMECOMING! Long Live the Iloilo Doctors’ College of Medicine, Inc. on its 25th year anniversary... WELCOME HOME ALUMNI.