St. Luke's College of Medicine, William H. Quasha

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St. Luke's College of Medicine - William H. Quasha Memorial (SLCM-WHQM)[1] is one of the 34 medical schools in the Philippines. Established in 1994 as the medical school of the St. Luke's Medical Center (est. 1903), it offers a 5-year curriculum leading to the degree of Doctor of Medicine (MD), assuring a one-year internship program at the Medical Center. SLCM-WHQM is duly accredited by the Commission on Higher Education.

SLCM-WHQM consists of Basic and Clinical Departments with a full complement of faculty and staff. As of SY 2007-2008, there are 308 students enrolled from first to fifth year.

The 14-storey College of Medicine building, completed in June 1997, has air-conditioned classrooms and conference/lecture halls with audio-visual devices. The College has 5 basic science laboratories, a Skills-Training Laboratory, Behavioral Science Laboratory and a mock Operating Room. The Library has been designed to nurture a person's inclination to learn as comfortable as possible. It has a computer section complete with internet facilities aside from the WiFi access available in the Library. At the Penthouse is an Auditorium which serves as a venue for large student and faculty conferences and activities of the College as well as events of the Medical Center. Three elevators ease access to all floor levels. For more on the facilities, please click here.

SLCM follows the integrated basic and clinical sciences curriculum spread over a 5-year course. Medical Clerkship and Internship programs are provided at the St. Luke's Medical Center with affiliations in local specialty hospitals to expose students to a wide variety of patients, and clinical facilities. In the Community Medicine program, students have the opportunity to rotate in various identified Community Medicine centers in our vicinity.

St Luke's Medical Center (SLMC) is the base hospital for the College. SLMC is the first hospital in the Philippines and second in Asia that is accredited by the Joint Commission for International Accreditation (JCIA), the foreign arm for the USA's Joint Commission for Accreditation of Hospital Organizations (JCAHO). The St. Luke's Medical Center is an international affiliate of the New York Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University and the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, all in the USA.

St. Luke's College of Medicine and the St. Luke's Medical Center have been host to several medical students from the University of Hawaii and the University of Alberta in Canada who opted to have their electives rotation with the College and the Medical Center.

SLCM has an active Faculty Development Program which includes sponsorship of faculty members to scholarships in relevant graduate studies of their choice. Student and faculty research, in close collaboration with the Research and Biotechnology Division of SLMC, is encouraged and fostered through generous funding assistance. Grants for Professorial Chairs are also available to the Faculty.

St. Luke's College of Medicine - WHQM is located at Cathedral Heights along Sta. Ignaciana St, which crosses E. Rodriquez Ave. in Quezon City just behind St. Luke's Medical Center. The College can be accessed through three main routes, namely, through St. Luke's Medical Center, through Trinity University, or by way of Sct. Reyes St. in the Roxas/Roces district coming from the Quezon Ave. area.

[edit] Mission

The St. Luke's College of Medicine provides the fundamentals for the formation of competent, compassionate, socially-responsible, ethical, well-rounded physicians ready for general practice and primed for specialization.

[edit] Vission

To be the number 1 College of Medicine in the Philippines by 2010.

[edit] Administraion

Dr. Brigido L Carandang, Jr., Fellow of the Philippine College of Physicians (PCP) and the Philippine Neurology Association (PNA), is the new President and Dean of the St Luke's College of Medicine-WHQM (SLCM) starting the academic year 2005-2006. Addressing the SLCM faculty, students and staff at the Opening Ceremonies on June 6, 2005, Dr. Carandang prioritizes Curriculum and Research among the various programs he intends to develop during his term as head of the College to make SLCM the number 1 school of medicine in the country in the next five years.

As a top-caliber institution, President Carandang envisions SLCM to graduate students who have a solid medical education background ready to hurdle the Physician Licensure Examination and be well prepared to go into any specialty residency training of their choice more than any other graduate of institutions that do not have state-of-art technology and expertise available only at the St Luke's Medical Center, the College's base hospital where all its graduates rotate for both clerkship and internship.

An alumnus (batch 1968) of the University of the East Ramon Magsaysay Memorial Medical Center College of Medicine, the President and Dean had one year of residency in Pathology and finished the training program in Internal Medicine. He pursued his residency training in Neurology at the University of California Davis Medical Center in Sacramento, California, USA.

Dr. Carandang serves both as a neurologist and an academician since his return to the Philippines. With his leadership prowess and management skills, he is now the President and Dean of the St. Luke's College of Medicine - WHQM. Among his research initiatives, Dean Carandang plans to pursue his investigative study of the "Bangungot" Syndrome as it inflicts young Filipino males. A major thrust of his administration is the alignment of the direction and programs of the College with that of its base hospital, the St Luke's Medical Center.