Question Asthma Diagnosis - Appetite Enhancing "Vitamins"

That would be cardiology

 

Dr. Ligo is a lung specialist, as well as treating many other ailments.

 

It didn't make you wonder why I said I knew a good pulmonary guy when you were talking about doctors? You asked about doctors in the context of a kid with lung problems.

 

Doc here, unfair to the profession. I missed the lesson on breathing in med school, but did catch up on feet, the stuff that whizzes about under our skin and is red and how to fiddle about when reconstructing knees and look flash at the same time in front of first and second year interns. I later just about managed a fair to middling career in Psychiatry. Kids mainly and had a hand in discovering one or two bits of your brains that get shut down if you get bashed about a lot by a parent/bad Uncle/whoever when you are tiny that govern important things like self regulation or empathy.

Of course there are good n bad in all professions, and I absolutely concur about the state of the average Filipino kids diet....but hang on, let's not tar the whole trade. Most docs here will tell you they are fighting a losing battle on most fronts, funding, treatment options, infrastructure and so on; let alone most patients don't come back for follow ups as they can't afford it/they feel better and have stopped the course they need to finish even though they'll have to sell the family cow for the next consult' when the problem comes back again twice as bad.

I admire 'em for not quitting when graduated and effing off to the overseas smoke for the bigger bucks. Must be heartbreaking to run a Pedias clinic in Holy Child day in day out, or manage an Oncology unit even at Silliman. Something a little more positive please?

 

OK. I am positive that all who study to be a doctor at Silliman University will pass!

Silliman University Medical School - Wikipedia
It is a positive feeling for the idiot kid in my subdivision that he is sure to graduate, even though he is currently getting failing grades, but it does not instill me with confidence for Philippine doctors who have not yet paid their dues. It is why we share notes and stories on this forum. No-one wants to get stuck with an idiot doctor and we respect the referrals to the ones who have earned respect.

 

Silliman has a high rate of "board passers" they get those high numbers because they will not endorse a student to write the board exam unless they are pretty sure the student will pass. Students that pass their courses but are not endorsed by Silliman will enroll in another university and do a course review so they can sit the exam.

 

Most nurses that went to the UK could not pass the language test also the medical test. And the UK are desperate for them. Same goes for doctors.

 

10 Best Medical Schools in the Philippines - SeriousMD Blog


Silliman is not the only school with 100% passing rate. I thought I read somewhere that Silliman was one of the best institution in the Philippines, could have been years ago, but they didn't show up in the couple of medical lists I looked at. It seems that rating is largely determined by pass rate, so it's interesting that they don't show up.

From
Doctor of Medicine - Top schools by board exam passing rates

Silliman is at 93%

• Based on the results of 4 board exams:
  Sep 2017, Mar 2017, Sep 2016, Mar 2016