Author: Padayon UP

With the guidance of the faculty-in-charge (FIC), the students are guided in analyzing the nutritional situation of the community. They are taught to facilitate the planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of a nutrition program that will address the identified nutritional problem together with the Local Nutrition Committees and other stakeholders in the community. They endorse nutrition interventions to the Local Nutrition Committees and other stakeholders in the community, and they identify, analyze the nutritional needs, and formulate a nutrition care plan for an at-risk family. They assist community health and nutrition workers with their nutrition-related tasks and responsibilities, and they conduct a capability-building seminar for the community health and nutrition workers.

This seminar aims to provide food handlers with basic knowledge on how hazardous elements can be prevented from getting into the food and thus, offer safe food for families and the public.

This training course provides skills for anaerobic bacteriology, which includes media preparation, anaerobiosis, isolation, and identification of anaerobes.

This refresher course is meant for graduates who want to take the licensure exam for the fourth time. Enrollees must show proof of completion before being allowed to take the fourth exam. This refresher course is based on Resolution No. 8, Series of 1998, promulgated on October 29, 1999 by Professional Regulation Commission.

This mission sought to help patients with AVF seen in the Surgery OPD clinics.

This extension service is focused on exposing high school students and providing them an academic experience in the pharmaceutical chemistry setting. The guided activities include performing laboratory work in the current researches of faculty members, assisting in the development of lab experiments for pharmacy students, and analysis of data.

The Department offers consultation services to students and professionals on their researches. Research topics covered in consultations range from natural products analysis, methods development, bioassay, biochemistry and to waste disposal. This service has been offered since 2014, and can be availed either through formal request or by walking-in.

In response to the dynamic regulations imposed to drugs, cosmetics, and medical devices, the Department of Industrial Pharmacy added training sessions on Quality Risk Management, Risk Management Planning, and Quality Metrics. A series of lectures and workshops, this short course aims to help participants develop plans to monitor pharmaceutical systems and processes by identifying potential risks, their potential impact to products, and propose corrective and preventive actions if the need arises. These efforts will drive continuous improvements in the pharmaceutical industry, hospital and community pharmacies.

This course aims to develop dysphagia specialists among speech pathologists and other health professionals. It focuses on comparative physiology of normal and non-normal swallow in the pediatric and adult populations, as well as the multidisciplinary team approach to dysphagia.

This mission sought to help the long list of patients lined up at the OPD for surgery. It hastened the delivery of surgical services to Division of Pediatric Surgery patients, majority of which are indigent.