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The Philippine General Hospital is committed to giving the Filipino people the best available healthcare despite our meager resources. From a simple cough to the most traumatic of accidents, the utmost service is provided by the most-qualified health professionals in the country.
Being the premiere training institution of medicine, the Philippine General Hospital likewise is responsible in nurturing physicians-in-training, medical and nursing students alike to be competent, humane and ethical healthcare providers, educators and leaders. In addition, through a variety of conferences and workshops, our hospital infuses continued medical & nursing education to those in need of updating knowledge in their fields of expertise. Such are our responsibilities that ensure the continued care of the Filipino into the future.
Lastly, the Philippine General Hospital partakes in various research endeavors through the different clinical departments. In doing so, we intend to advance healthcare by providing the data and evidences needed in creating health policies which can be shared throughout the Philippines and worldwide.
Thus, it is that through the PGH commitment of SERVICE, TRAINING, EDUCATION and RESEARCH, we may justify and put substance to the saying:
In the service of the Filipino people, we remain.
DR. JOSE C. GONSALES, FPCS, FPATACSI
Director
Philippine General Hospital
The Philippine General Hospital trains an average of 160 medical students from the UP College of Medicine annually. This same number will usually be accepted as medical interns in their last year at medical school. An additional 80-90 post graduate interns from other medical schools are also accepted from the most qualified of approximately a thousand applicants from all over the country. These medical interns undergo a rigorous course of clinical rotation in all departments and their respective sections for one year. Didactics, ward rounds and preceptorship, emergency room duties, out-patient clinics, operating theater rotations and departmental and interdepartmental conferences are included in the clinical rotation.
PGH exists because, in health, we are our brother' keepers. With a "TATAK PGH"anner of treating our patients, we ensure that all patients understand their conditions and are able to participate in their own treatments. We have 19 clinical departments each worth with its own array of general, specialty, subspecialty and cuttingedge units and offering excellent facilities. The delivery of comprehensive care for both healthy and sick Filipinos, especially the poor and marginalized.
The Philippine General Hospital recognizes that research is an integral part of being a University Hospital. Furthermore, the PGH realizes that quality training and service are enhanced by quality research.
The PGH research committee was established in 1995 to address the hospital's research needs. In the same year, the first PGH Residents' and Fellows' Forum was held followed shortly by the first PGH Nurses' Research Forum. The first issue of the PGH research journal was also published in 1995. In 1996, several research activities were undertaken, the PGH Ethics Committee was formed and a Hospital Research Week was held. A research fund was also setup to fund commissioned researches and grants.
