UERMMH is a tertiary hospital founded on an academic institution. Our mission is to provide personalized quality care, based on rational medical economics, to patients from all walks of life. Through the excellent practice of this unique competence, we aim to affirm our distinction as a top hospital in the Philippines. The mission of the UERM Memorial Medical Center (UERMMMC) education system is to serve society by educating and training a diverse medical and paramedical workforce capable of meeting the country’s need for health workers engaged in the practice of medicine, nursing, physical therapy, public health, biomedical and health services research, as well as developing administrators and educators through its graduate school.
- Be effective, efficient and affordable
- Attract and successfully educate a diverse group of learners
- Support the health and well-being of learners at each stage of their careers
- Cultivate mentoring relationships for learners at each stage of their careers
- Encourage and support learners who have diverse career goals
- Provide opportunities for learners to engage in effective learning experiences throughout their careers.
To produce graduates who will provide high quality care to the patients that seek their help, we promote:
- A humanistic approach to health care delivery
- An appreciation of the importance of the biological and population sciences for the advancement of patient care
- A patient-centered approach to health care
- An appreciation of the importance of fundamental research for the advancement of medical,nursing and rehabilitative care
- An understanding of the organization, financing and delivery of health care in the country
- A global perspective on contemporary health issues.
We likewise ensure that our health care professionals are able to:
- Provide culturally sensitive and appropriate care
- Listen and communicate effectively
- Weigh quality of life issues appropriately when making patient care decisions
- Access and use available evidence effectively and efficiently when making patient care decisions
- Provide care in the face of uncertainty and doubt
- Use resources effectively and efficiently in providing health care
- Use technologies appropriately in providing patient care
- Participate effectively in multidisciplinary and team approaches to patient care
- Contribute to eliminating medical errors and improving the quality of health care
- Balance individual and population health needs when making patient care decisions.
To ensure that these objectives are achieved, we:
- Develop and ort effective teachers
- Employ educational strategies of demonstrated effectiveness
- Employ educational technologies that enhance learning
- Promote the acquisition of skills necessary for self-directed learning
- Provide developmentally appropriate opportunities for learners to acquire these attributes:
- Knowledge,skills, attitudes and values—they will need to meet their professional responsibilities
- Provide learning experiences that promote a thorough understanding of the biomedical sciences and the relevance of those sciences to the practice of providing health care
- Provide clinical education experiences primarily in settings where learners will encounter the kinds of patients they are most likely to care for after entering practice.
