Recruitment and Admission Committee: Requirements and Criteria for Admission

Community Health Work

I. Who can be a scholar?

1. High school graduate, preferably 16-25 years old upon admission.
2. Should not have more than one (1) year of college experience.
3. If out of school youth, preferably not more than 3 years
4. Comes from a depressed community in dire need of health workers and distant from health facilities.
5. Parents and scholar are permanent residents of the community endorsing the scholar
6. Scholar must have resided in the sending community for at least one (1) year prior to nomination.
7. Scholar must be nominated by the community through a Barangay Resolution signed by at least 75% of household heads.
8. Family income must not be more than PHP100,000 per annum.
9. Physically and mentally fit.
10. Committed to stay and serve the underserved areas of their municipality/province/region evidenced by his/her willingness to sign a Return Service Agreement of two (2) years service for every year of training.
11. Outstanding Barangay Health Workers (BHWs) and or members of the Community Health Team are encouraged to be nominated.

II. Bachelor of Science in Nursing

1. Service Leave Performance - 50%
2. Academic standing - 15%
3. Community endorsement - 20%
4. Availability of health personnel - 10%
5. Faculty evauluation - 5%

Criteria for promotion of nominees for BSN who have been employed (health/health-related work settings):

1. Latest performance evaluation (PES or equivalent in private institutions) - 50%
2. Endorsement from sending agency or sending LGU - 25%
3. Academic standing - 25%

Note: CHW graduates for promotion to BSN should have passed the Midwifery Licensure Examinations and the BSN pre-qualifying examinations conducted by the BSN Department.

III. Medicine

1. Service leave performance - 35%
2. Endorsement from the Municipal/Provincial Health Board approving the nomination of the scholar. - 15%
3. Health human resource complement of the sponsoring Province or Municipality - 10%
4. Passed the Medical pre-qualifying examinations and interview - 10%
5. Faculty evaluation - 10%
6. Academic standing - 20%

Criteria for promotion to Medicine level for nominees who have been employed (health/health-related work settings):

1. Latest performance evaluation (PES or equivalent in private institutions) - 40%
2. Endorsement from sending agency or sponsoring municipality or province - 20%
3. Health human resource complement of the sponsoring municipality/province - 10%
4. Passed the Medical pre-qualifying examination and Interview - 10%
5. Academic standing - 20%

Note: Applicants to Medicine must have taken the NMAT with a score on the 15th percentile or higher.

Criteria for nominees who are recipients of other Scholarships (e.g. PinoyMD):

1. Endorsement and approval of scholarship financial support from sending agency (GO/NGO) - 60%
2. Passed the Medical pre-qualifying examination and Interview - 20%
3. NMAT Score - 10%
4. Academic standing - 10%