Author: Padayon UP

The Postgraduate Training Course in Diagnostic Mycology is an annual professional training or course offering of the department. The course has been offered since the 1980s to dermatology residents, with participation of some medical technologists. Since 2016, the PAPSHPI, Inc. has also reached out to the Department requesting for this training course to be conducted among their members. The course is lecture- based, covering different types of fungal infections, fungal agents, diagnosis, and treatment. It also provides for hands-on laboratory work-up of fungal agents and microscopic demonstrations.

This mission sought to alleviate the lives of the of the patients with goiter and/or breast cancer at the Out-patient Clinic or Breast Care Center.

The slit skin smear reading service was first offered on April 2011 when residents from the PGH Section of Dermatology started sending out their leprosy patient slides for AFB staining and quantitative bacterial load determination to the Department of Medical Microbiology.

BIDANI aims to promote nutrition-in-development through community and other key stakeholders’ participation in an integrated management system facilitated by State Universities and Colleges’ extension programs. It is a community-based integrated development strategy designed to improve nutritional status and general well-being of the poor. To the academe, BIDANI is an action research. For partner LGUs, it is a strategy to systematically help them evolve their own development programs with an orientation to nutrition.

This certificate course aims to develop augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) specialists in the field of speech-language pathology in the Philippines by developing the participants’ knowledge and skills in AAC assessment and intervention.

This mission seeks to alleviate the long list of congenital heart disease pediatric patients, and to deliver quality and pioneering medical care for patients.

This mission catered to all nasoethmoidal meningocoele patients needing intracranial and extracranial repair. This procedure is performed only at the Philippine General Hospital.

This seeks to evaluate hazards in the workplace, including heat stress, illumination, noise, ventilation, airborne contaminants such as lead dust, etc.

In the Philippines and elsewhere, health care organizations find themselves awash with policies regulating hospitals and other health facilities, as well as payers. There are also rules and standard operating procedures within organizations that are designed to guide behavior within the organization. However, a common challenge is ensuring effective implementation of these policies.

The consultants of the UP-PGH Department of Rehabilitation Medicine serve as short-term consultants and speakers to government and private agencies.

Some the recent projects that involved the consultants and speakers include the workshop “Determining Eligibility for the Issuance of PWD ID”, the Philhealth Meeting on Z-morph package on Children with Disabilities, the PITAHC Workshop, the IMCI project of the Teachers Foundation, and the creation of Modules on Autism, ADHD, and Intellectual Deficits for Early Childhood Care and Development (ECCD) Council.