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.
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The interprofessional workshop series is a partnership between Young Pharmacists Group Philippines and the Department of Pharmacy. It caters to the needs of the Filipino pharmacists by inviting speakers from different fields of practice to enhance their competencies on common health problems relevant to their practice. The pharmacists after each IPWS session are expected to improve their knowledge and skills in the provision of care to patients. At the same time, they are also expected to practice interprofessional collaboration among healthcare team members to achieve better patient outcomes.
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.
This mission sought to help the long list of patients with breast cancer and benign breast diseases that require surgery.
This mission helped patients with hernia at the Surgery Outpatient Clinic of the Philippine General Hospital.
This mission helped the patients with gallstone disease at the Out-Patient Clinic of the PGH.
This mission sought to help patients with hemorrhoidal diseases, fistula- in-ano and perianal warts at the Out-patient Clinic.
This service aims to make fungal cultures from nail specimen, skin scraping, tissue biopsy samples or even hair and pus from suspected mycoses from patients. Aside from isolation and identification, rapid diagnostic tests of specimen via KOH mounting is also offered.
This service is intended for the diagnosis of leptospirosis.
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.