Bantayan Breakthrough this Summer 2011

For many students, its vacation time. Usually during summer, friends or barkadas look for the perfect place for adventure. Just dipping in a pool or plain swimming in the beach will not suffice for them. Well, you may never believe it but 14 activities and the perfect summer getaway awaits you in Bantayan Breakthrough brought to you by Globe Telecom and the Cebu Mountaineering Alliance in partnership with Stage Time Productions and the Business Incubators.

It will be on April 20-24 and all of the activities can be experienced 4 days straight for P1500 pesos only at Rommel's Beach, Bantayan Island.. See above poster for contact numbers regarding your tickets and other details.

CBSi is an official media partner of Bantayan Breakthrough.

March 2011 Medtech Board Exam: 2 Cebuanos top 1 and 2

In the latest Board exams for medical technologists in the Philippines, two brought pride to their schools in Cebu.

They are (top one) Jose Louie Remotigue of Southwestern University with a rating of 89.69% and (top two) Rayna Abendan of Cebu Doctors' University with a rating of 87.80%.

They led a field of 498 out of 806 examinees who passed the Medical Technology Licensure Exam taken last week.

Scheduled Summer Trainings in UP Manila 2011

Various departments in University of the Philippines, College of Public Health (UPM-CPH) are offering training and postgraduate courses this summer 2011.

Performance of Cebu medical schools in the February 2011 Boards

The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) announced that 655 out of 1,230 (53.25%) passed the Physician  Licensure Examination given this February 2011 after four (4) working days from the last day of examinations.


Seventeen (17) Cebu Institute of Medicine graduates took the exam and all of them passed (100%) continuing their run of perfect passing percentage. 


Cebu Doctors which notably is also having the PBL type of curriculum, had a 78.57% (11/14) passing rate with one of their examinees in the top 8. She is Cristine Aurestella Descallar who got a rating of 84.58%.


Combining University of the Visayas and Gullas College of Medicine results (assuming they are referring to the same medical school), their passing rate was determined to be 33.33% (20/60).


Meanwhile Southwestern University College of Medicine had a rate of 49.18% (30/61).

Quality Control: An analysis of the Velezian Med Tech - Yesterday, Today and the Future

This is a piece made by a fellow Velez College medical technology alumnus Keith Andrew Chan which I first read in the Velez College BSMT grads Facebook group which I decided to re-post with the author's permission of course. This is in response to a challenge question posed by Mr. Deogracias Delfin of what quality control means.

Velez Medtech grads: Suggestions needed for reunion plans

Dear Velez Medical Technology graduates from all over the world:

As you may have already known, our Facebook group is up and about and 926 people as of this moment have responded to the call to come together in the said online group to reminisce the good old times and renew friendships and foster camaraderie.

Plans have been hatched regarding a grand reunion -- one in the United States and one in the Philippines but the most appropriate venue and time has not been decided yet.

The S Wars: Velez MT Grad Poll -Which is the Best S Group?

In my medtech school alma mater Velez College, there are these S groups that will determine groupings for Sunday duties. These are the same groupings for sports fests and other matters.

In the newly-built Velez College BSMT grads Facebook group, you would notice posts of graduates declaring that their S group is the best.

I know for a fact that 4S is the best (haha!). Well, this is my blog so I can say it really and there is nothing much one can do about it but sige na nga. Once and for all. Let's put it to rest. Velez College BS Medical Technology graduates everywhere in the globe, which is the best S group?