Is there really an oversupply of Pinoy Nurses in the Philippines?

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Recent reports state that there is an oversupply of Pinoy nurses now in the Philippines due mainly to 2 factors. 1. Highly commercialized nursing schools Students are still being advised to take onNursing because they and their parents believed that becoming a nurse abroad is their ticket to escape poverty. Success stories of Pinoy nurses abroad are being flaunted everyday by nursing schools to attract more and more students to boost their earnings. And one way or another, someone from the family has direct link or relation to someone who is making big bucks abroad that only solidify the intent of the students to take on nursing. The result more and more high school graduates are now flooding these nursing schools as the preferred college course. Tens of thousands also end up taking the nursing board exams. The high board passing rate also encourage the students to take on the course. 2. Practical Nursing programs Not many people know on the onset that Practical nursesend up to be the nursing assistants to registered nurses here and abroad. The proliferation of practical nursing programs from various nursing school institutions, which is a vocational course to begin with, has attracted even more students to easily jump into the nursingboom. False advertising plays the part on the oversupply. Students are led to believe that Practicalnursing course is their shortcut to going abroad than taking the full 4-year course. But recent reports showed that graduates of practical nursing are having a hard time finding jobs abroad contrary to what has been advertised when they are enrolling in those practicalnursing schools. This has raised concerns at PNA which warned students to be very careful taking on this course as it is not a guarantee that they will get working visas or immigrant status in the US for example. Now with all unemployed nurses around, how will the government deal with this oversupplysituation? This will definitely add to unemployment rate in the future if and when the government will not take action as early as now to curb the impact of this impendingoversupply as well as the effect of deteriorating demand in the nursing profession here and abroad. [ad] [ad#ct1] [ad#ct2]

Could it be that the Philippines got too excited about the demand for nurses worldwide that today, there are too many nurses than the healthcare institutions can handle. A report from the University of the Philippines Dean of the College ofNursing revealed that indeed our country has so many nurses that new nursing graduates are finding it hard to find jobs. The competition among nursing graduates is so stiff that local hospitals can now afford to hire nurses for free. Another proof that we have too many nurses is a report from the President of the Philippine Nurses Association (PNA), Leah Paquiz that the quota requirement for migrant workers in America for this year had been reached.This is not the first time that the Philippines had experienced an oversupply of professionals of a particular field. There was a time when demand for Physical Therapists (PT) abroad made the course very popular among Filipino students only to find out later that the supply becomes greater than the demand that many PT graduates found themselves jobless or if employed in a job that offer very little or no monetary pay.The clich that history repeats itself seems to be true in this case as it seems to be happening again with the nurses. In spite of the obvious oversupply of nurses, nursing schools continues to proliferate and offer nursing courses to hopeful students, almost all of them wishing to land a job overseas.Whats worse is that many of the new nursing schools are mere diploma mills adding more number of nurses every year. The government program that ladderizes nursing education allowing students to be practical nurses also adds to the oversupply problem.

The impending future of too many nurses posed a serious problem for the country that should not be ignored. Paquiz of PNA said, There is no local demand or positions for practical nurses within the Philippine Health Care Delivery system particularly in the light of the oversupply of nurses and subsequent unemployment of graduate nurses. The PNA are calling the attention of the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) to monitor and be strict against the new nursing schools and even on courses that offer two-year practical nursing program. Paquiz said that foreign employers still prefer the four-year college-degree nurses who passed the Licensure Board Exams. A PNA statement said, The PNA strongly objects to the institution of the Practical Nursing program and vehemently rejects the proposed ladderization of the nursing curriculum, a PNA statement said. The PNA also want to emphasize that more than the quantity, the Philippines should focus more on producing quality nurses and not to view nursing as a surefire way out of poverty.

Oversupply of Filipino Nurses in the Philippines

Based on conducted surveys, there has been an oversupply of Filipino nurses here in the Philippines. The primary factor cited is having wide availability of nursing schools. Students are bombarded with successful nursing stories abroad that invite them to take up nursing courses in escape to poverty. Inspiring stories has been promoted by nursing school to attract many and many more students to increase their profit. Also, someone of the family members had direct contact or relation who is earning dollars abroad, thus solidify the intent to take nursing profession. To this connection, most high school graduates are enrolling to these nursing schools as their chosen college course. As a result, every year produces more and more nursing graduates. Another caused would be the practical nursing program, which is a vocational course. Many people believe that practical nursing program is the shortcut to the four year degree course. The increasing practical nursing program from different nursing schools has encouraged more students to jump into the nursing roar. Through this false advertising student are led to believe that practical nursing course is a shortcut on going to abroad that taking the degree course. However reports showed practical nursing graduates are having difficult time on finding jobs abroad contrary to what was advertised.

Considering the number of unemployed nurses, how will the government respond to this situation? For sure, this will add the unemployment rate of the Philippines and if the government will not take necessary actions to stop this condition, this might be the caused of deteriorating demand in the nursing profession.

Oversupply of nurses forces them to pay to work for free

BY IBARRA C. MATEO February 20, 2011 1:00am
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Nurse Salva (not his real name) is harried and hungry as he inspects a patients intravenous line in the surgical ward of a government hospital in Quezon City. It is almost 10 a.m. and doctors are winding up their rounds. He has been up since 4 a.m. but his exacting eight-hour work shift rarely gives him time to get a full meal, so he gets by on cheap hard candies when hunger pangs strike. Through tough perseverance, I managed to survive. Going to the bathroom to take a leak was already a luxury at the time," the 23year old nurse recalls his experience as a volunteer nurse. A few kilometers away, nurse Krisma (not her real name) also toiled on the morning shift at another hospital ward. We were willing victims of hospitals," the 22-year-old nurse said in a separate interview. Salva and Krisma graduated from the Institute of Nursing of the Far Eastern University and passed the licensure exams in June 2009. For fear of losing job opportunities, they agreed to be interviewed only if their identities and the hospitals where they served as volunteer nurses would not be revealed. Ideally, the global standard is to have one nurse for every 8-10 patients, but this is hardly observed in most local hospitals, according to the Philippine Nurses Association (PNA). Private hospitals are averse to publicizing their nurse plantilla positions, said Teresita Barcelo, national president of the PNA. Meanwhile, public hospitals are limited in their personnel hiring by World War II-era charters, and so despite the significant increase in the number of patients, budgetary constraints limit their wards to only one nurse per 40-50 patients, she said. To make up for the shortfall, hospitals started accepting new registered nurses as volunteers, but with a twist: aside from providing free labor, the nurses had to pay so-called training fees." Salva and Krisma are two such volunteer nurses" who paid two hospitals 3,000 pesos each in return for a three-month stint tending to patients. In the volunteer nurse scheme, hospitals are able to cut costs and at the same time raise revenues through the fees paid by the volunteer nurse or nurse trainees. This practice saves hospitals money because they dont have to hire regular staff nurses," Barcelo said. The scheme has been rampantly practiced all over the country" for many years now, added Alvin Cloyd Dakis, national president of the Alliance of Young Nurse Leaders and Advocates International (AYNLA).

Citing statistics from the Professional Regulatory Commission, Dakis said the number of unemployed and under-employed registered Filipino nurses is estimated to range from a low of 160,000 to a high of 200,000. With hundreds of thousands of unemployed licensed nurses desperate for work, thousands of them went to hospitals to pay for the limited volunteer nurse slots or to train in order to gain bedside clinical experience in exchange for certificates stating that they were nurse volunteers or trainees for a specific period of time," said Dakis. A well-known secret Unemployed or under-employed nurses shelling out up to 10,000 pesos for a six-month term as volunteer nurses or nurse trainees in both public and private hospitals has long been known in the health industry, but authorities have repeatedly denied the existence of the problem. Dr. Rustico A. Jimenez, president of the 600-member Private Hospitals Association of the Philippines (PHAP), said his organization has asked volunteer nurses and their supporters to show evidence so they can investigate the issue. If we cannot see any written proof such as receipts or contracts, we cannot act accordingly," Jimenez said. We want to see contracts that say nurses were made to work in a hospital and yet were even asked to pay instead of the hospitals paying for their services rendered." Health Secretary Enrique T. Ona has also encouraged aggrieved nurses to report their complaints against erring hospitals to the Department of Health (DOH) through the agencys website, even assuring their anonymity. They can come here. We will not reveal their names and identities. Or they can write to the DOH. They may not put their names," he said, adding that they have not received any formal complaint yet. Ona takes action When the issue was raised in the media last month, Ona issued a memorandum ordering the departments medical directors and chiefs of hospitals to submit a list of training programs that are meant to provide students of allied health programs and/or allied health professionals with the required competencies that are integral part of their professional education and/or as part of the hospital staffs capability-building efforts." A copy of Memorandum 2011-0018 issued Jan. 18 and obtained by GMA News Online indicated that Ona ordered a thorough review" of the training programs, saying there have been anecdotal evidences that nurses were required to pay for attending training programs in hospitals." At a news conference where the issue was raised, Ona asked: What do they mean by nurses working in hospitals without pay? Who are these hospitals engaged in this practice? I want to know what is the agreement of these volunteer nurses with the hospitals. If these are illegal, there may be particular sanctions." But this may be easier said than done. Barcelo of PNA points out: If you are a young or newly registered nurse, you have a whole life ahead of you. Why will you risk your career to complain about this scheme publicly?" Barcelo told GMA News Online the problem of nurse-volunteers for a fee is a well-known secret. It is an injustice. It is exploitation." Promise of jobs In the case of the nurse volunteers who are members of AYNLA, volunteering means paying hospitals exorbitant training fees while providing nursing services without getting paid professional fees and at the same time, working like paid staff nurses," said Dakis, a former nursing clinical instructor at the Cebu Normal University.

Volunteer nurses or trainees expect or hope to be given preferential treatment when a rare vacancy in their hospital of affiliation occurs," said Dakis, who never volunteered himself because he considered it a form of exploitation. Many newspaper advertisements specify that Filipino nurses who want to work abroad are required to submit certification to prospective employers of having worked continuously as staff nurses for at least two years in a local 250-bed tertiary hospital. Nurses have been informed that certifications attesting to their being nurse volunteers or trainees of certain hospitals would be equivalent to work experience and credited as part of the required work experience for overseas employment. Unfortunately, this is not the case for most countries. Only Middle Eastern countries accept this kind of volunteer or trainee certificates," Dakis said. Barcelo said that through the current nurse volunteerism-for-a-fee cum training scheme, hospitals can give nurses certification of work hours spent in their health facilities. In the past, this certificate was submitted for employment abroad. Unfortunately, foreign employers have come to know of this erroneous practice. Now, they no longer accept certificates of experience through volunteerism," she said. What these foreign employers are looking for is experience of paid work as a regular staff nurse in a tertiary hospital. These foreign hospitals now call on hospitals to check and verify whether nurse applicants are indeed in the payroll as a regular staff nurse," Barcelo added. Many nurse 'trainees' don't get training Some hospitals changed the name of nurse volunteer to nurse trainee to justify the training fees collected," Dakis reveals. However, specialty training in nursing practice means advance practice which focuses on specialty areas such at peri-operative, dialysis, oncology, and critical care nursing." He continues: Training in a medical surgical ward, for example, which only makes a volunteer nurse or a trainee nurse assume the roles and functions of a basic staff nurse is not specialty training. Why? Because basic training is expected to have been mastered by a student nurse during his 3rd and 4th years in nursing schools." In contrast to Salva and Krisma, for instance, fresh graduate Reigner Jireh Antiquera managed to secure a slot in the competitive critical care nursing course" offered by a specialty hospital in Quezon City. The two-month course costing 6,000 pesos was paid for by his older brother who is working as a nurse overseas,. Antiquera, who ranked 10th in his 182-member graduating class in a school of nursing in Pasay City, said it was worth his brothers money and his time. We had intensive lectures and clinical instructors closely supervised us when we do bedside procedures," the 21-year-old unemployed nurse said in an interview. The critical care nursing course being offered by the hospital is a program intended to prepare nurses to be responsive to the complex needs of the critically ill," Antiquera said. The course was not a simple case of attending to the bedside needs of patients." He added that from the start, it was made clear to the nurses who took the course that they would not be hired after the training. Barcelo of PNA asserts that her group is not against training in general. Training in its real meaning is alright. Say, I would like to become a critical-care nurse. If I were a fresh graduate, obviously I am not a specialist. To get to a certain level of being a specialist, I need training," she said. What we are particularly against is this: you are volunteering and this is not structured training. Yet, to volunteer, you have to pay. Here what you have is that the volunteer nurses are not paid, but still asked to pay for training. This is exploitation," Barcelo said. We do not have a specialty training called ward nursing."

Unfortunately, Barcelo notes, There is no law that directly allows or prohibits the practice of nurse volunteerism for a fee. But these are registered nurses. They have earned their degrees and licenses. They have had clinical practicum of more than 2000 hours in their four years of studies. I do not see any reason or a need for our nurses to go on volunteerism for a fee which now has evolved into a training program." Volunteer nurses pay to be 'slaves' Generally, Barcelo said nurses engaged in volunteer work disguised as specialty trainings are simply doing the tasks of a ward nurse." The experiences of volunteer nurses interviewed for this story validate this assertion. Volunteer nurse Salva said he initially applied as a staff nurse at a hospital in Quezon City, but was told there was no vacancy. Instead, officers at the hospital told him they accept volunteer nurses who are willing to pay 1,000 pesos per month." From December 2008 to March 2009, Salva functioned like an ordinary staff nurse and was posted in the operating room, surgical ward, obstetric and gynecology ward, and pediatric ward. Krisma, a volunteer nurse from September to December 2010, recalled: I thought it was normal practice for a newly registered nurse to undergo the stage of volunteer nurse or nurse trainee, that is why I immediately joined." She realized belatedly that the socalled training" was not worth it. The masters of the wards are the staff nurses and their slaves are the volunteer nurses," she recalls. While the staff nurses lounge at the nurses station, the volunteer nurses do all their tasks from the menial to the most complicated. They initially assisted us, but eventually they left us to fend for ourselves. Staff nurses will only go to the bedside of a patient in instances when a cardiac arrest occurs or any similar extreme situations." Currently working as a pharmacy assistant, Krisma asks: Why did we, volunteer nurses, have to pay to do what the paid staff nurse should be doing?" Like Salva, who is now a part-time nurse specializing in diabetic patients and also a blogger, Krisma and other nurses want the government to investigate and put an end to the practice of volunteer nurses" that they consider not only abusive but also illegal. These so-called volunteer nurses or nurse trainees do not have regular staff nurses with them when they attend to patients. It is not legal because these volunteer nurses are not regular employees of hospitals," said Barcelo of PNA. Suppose a volunteer nurse commits an error in the course of carrying out his or her duties attending to a patient, who does the patient run after? The hospital may not be liable because a volunteer nurse is not a regular employee." She said patients are at the losing end in this situation. A volunteer nurse has no accountability. The affected patient cannot do something against the erring hospital because the volunteer nurse is not a regular employee of the said hospital. The patient is helpless in this scenario," Barcelo said. Barcelo said volunteer nurses sign a contract specifically stating there is no employer-employee relationship" between them and the hospital. The contract also states that it is only purely a training program and that they cannot receive benefits and compensation. Some quarters tell me, how come these nurses do not complain? I say, who do you go to? To the Labor Department? But these volunteer nurses are not employees. How can the Labor Department come in? They cannot," she said. Oversupply of new nurses, undersupply of skilled nurses To correct this situation, the nurses said the government has to take the lead in hiring more nurses to fill up positions in public hospitals and health facilities. However, one problem is the difficulty in getting accurate statistics.

I cannot tell you the exact figure of how many nurses we have in the Philippines. Many hospitals do not want to declare their nursing plantilla positions," said Barcelo. She said one way of getting the numbers is through the annual Nurses Licensure Examinations (NLE). In the June 2010 NLE, for instance, about 92,000 took the examinations; in the December 2010 NLE, approximately 86,000 sat for them and nearly 30,000 passed, results that were announced Saturday. Annually, on the average, about 40 percent of the nursing board-takers pass. So, if you have a total of 178,000 for 2010, 40 percent of that is about 71,200 passers. This will give you an idea of how many registered nurses we have every year," Barcelo said. In the Philippines, what we have is an oversupply of fresh nursing graduates and an undersupply of skilled nurses. Our skilled nurses, such as those with intensive care and critical care trainings, are the favorites of foreign recruiters. Operating room and emergency room nurses are in demand abroad," she said. Barcelo said the supply problem started sometime in 2003-2004, when foreign manpower experts projected that the global demand for nurses was estimated to be about 1 million by 2020." This triggered a demand for nursing courses, resulting in a huge leap from about 170 nursing schools in 2003 to 472 schools in 2010. The huge number of enrolees translated to a bigger number of student-nurses seeking affiliation with hospitals, crowding out available slots for training. By July 2008, when the nursing boom started producing graduates, PNA issued a statement saying, many Filipino nurses are now underemployed and unemployed." The statement noted that the licensure exams in 2006 produced 37,030 new nurses while in 2007, another 31,275 nurses joined the labor force. However, the surge coincided with decreased global demand in the US and the UK, two of the major markets for Filipino nurses, which started to prioritize recruitment of their own health workers. The domestic market is now oversaturated, with nursing pools in major hospitals as high as 1,500 and with employment waiting times ranging from six to 12 months. Nursing pools refer to those deemed qualified by hospital employers but waiting to be formally employed," the PNA statement said. The current nursing employment market is a buyers market that allows current employers to be highly selective and where the quality of a vast number of job seekers is very closely scrutinized." Barcelo said the failure of Philippine nursing schools to consider that the demand for nurses would not come from the Philippines alone, coupled with the global economic recession that started in 2007, contributed to the oversupply of nurses. However, other factors also come into play. What drives students to take up nursing, hotel and restaurant management courses or becoming a seaman, or even doctors to become nurses is the opportunity to go abroad, specifically the US," Barcelo said. One part of the equation of the desire of nurses to go abroad is recognition. In the Philippines, the contribution of nurses is not expressedly recognized," Barcelo said. In a real-life hospital setting, nurses are so powerless. Nurses cannot make decisions." She thinks one of the key solutions in combating the oversupply of nurses is to close down nursing schools that are not performing well and allowing the good ones to flourish. The students who would be left behind are students who really went into nursing because they genuinely like nursing and not just to go abroad." YA/HS, GMA News The author is a journalist and registered nurse who has undergone advanced specialty training in intravenous therapy.
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Following the surplus of nursing graduates, the difficulty in finding employment, the scandals and intrigues that plagued the profession and the stricter policies implemented by CHED in regulating nursing education, there is a gradual decrease in enrollment of nursing in the Philippines. Much like any other profession that continually evolves and improves itself, another trend in the nursing profession is the increasing number of specialty fields like pediatric nursing and forensic nursing. The growth of specializations is based on a particular setting or treatment, on a particular illness or health condition, a specific organ or biological system or a particular type of patient. Finally, the most common way to approach the hot trends in nursing is to look at the technological advancements that is revolutionizing the nursing field. Under this heading, there is the emergence of Point of care technologies which included different devices and systems that connect healthcare professionals with computers such as online collaboration for diagnosis, online health monitoring and point of care testing, among others. In the field of diagnostic processes, use of optical imaging has taken a big leap which can provide doctors with a 3 dimensional image instead of the traditional flat image.

There are many reasons why one would want to change a career in nursing such as the strong demand or employment opportunities abroad, high salary prospects, and more meaningful work to society. However, changing ones career is not as easy as turning a left or right direction. Instead, its a decision that entails a lot of pondering because of the many issues that are involved. First of, changing a career for nursing definitely requires intensive study. Whether one wants to be a license practical nurse or a registered nurse, there are different paths that one can take that would definitely suit ones current educational level. There are basically two paths for becoming a nurse. Directly by taking a college course in nursing in which one can earn a diploma in nursing or indirectly by taking a vocational course on midwifery, practical nursing, or associate nursing in any TESDA school then continuing the modular studies towards attaining a degree or diploma in nursing. Ones previous educational level and course also affects the path one takes. A high school graduate would obviously start from scratch when pursuing a college degree like nursing. This means one needs to take and complete all the required subjects and prerequisites to earn the diploma. On other hand, a professional who may have a degree in a medical related course such as biology, medical technology and similar courses, may be able to have some of the subjects one had taken in college credited already, which will definitely save one time and money in getting a nursing degree. After getting the diploma, one then needs to acquire a license by passing the PRC board exams. Some may even need to study further for advance practices in nursing. Because of the need for study to change ones career for nursing, money and time would definitely be an issue. Aside from escalating costs of the tuition and miscellaneous fees, one should also consider the cost of living allowance, which is even bigger. More Tags: different paths, diploma in nursing, Healthcare, Nurse, practical nursing,school graduate, Training Center

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CHED Warned Nursing Schools with Poor Performance

We have listed public and private nursing schools that will be foreclose because of their low performance rating in nursing board exam with a passing rate of 46.14. The issuance of warning are based on the five (5) years consecutive substandard performance set by the Professional Regulatory Commission (PRC). The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) blamed the glut of fly-by-night nursing institution in the country for the very poor passing rate of examines. The first step to stop this from happening again is to give them notice of warning for them to improve their performance in the next three (3) years, if not that they will be phased out. The PRC Commissioner-in-charge for nursing and allied profession, Ruth Padilla said that PRC Board of Nursing regularly ranks nursing institution based from their standards set by CHED together with school facilities, quality of staff, curriculum, learning behavior and action, and licensure exam passing rate. The schools will be remarks from excellent to very poor. Those schools that got 0-30% passing rate will be ranked very poor and thus will be given warnings to improve within a year. The institution list that includes four government universities and 11 other state institutions is as follows: Escuela De Nuestra Seniora De La Salette Golden West Colleges Lorna Colleges Lyceum of Northern Luzon Northern Christian College Northern Luzon Adventist College Panpacific University North Philippines-Urdaneta City Perpetual Help College of Pangasinan Polytechnic College of La Union Union Christian College University of Luzon University of Pangasinan Virgen Milagrosa University Foundation VMU Institute of Medical Foundation Aldersgate College, Lyceum of Aparri Our Lady of Pillar College-Cauayan St. Ferdinand College-Ilagan Carthel Science Educational Foundation Central Luzon Doctors Hospital Educational Institution

College of the Immaculate Conception-Cabanatuan City Dr. Gloria D. Lacson Foundation Colleges-Nueva Ecija Dr. Yangas Colleges Good Samaritan Colleges-Cabanatuan City Manuel V. Gallego Foundation Colleges Mt. Carmel College of Bocaue, Bulacan Nazarenus College Foundation Nueva Ecija Colleges Pamantasan ng Araullo United School Science and Technology Colleges University of Regina Carmeli Wesleyan University-Philippines (Cabanatuan) Calamba Doctors College Calayan Educational Foundation Dr. Francisco L. Calingasan Memorial Colleges Foundation First Asia Institute of Technology and Humanities Golden Gate Colleges Laguna College Lipa City Colleges Saint John Colleges-Calamba Saint Joseph College-Cavite City Saint Michaels College of Laguna Saints John and Paul Colleges San Pablo Colleges St. Anne College of Lucena Unciano Colleges (Antipolo) University of Batangas University of Perpetual Help Rizal-Calamba University of Perpetual Help Rizal-Molino Campus World Citi College Yaman Lahi Foundation-Emilio Aguinaldo College Ago Medical and Educational Center-Bicol Christian College of Medicine Aquinas University of Legazpi Immaculate Conception College-Albay Mabini Colleges Masbate Colleges Naga College Foundation Our Lady of Lourdes College Foundation Southern Bicol Colleges, Tabaco College Tanchuling College University of Northeastern Philippines

University of Saint Anthony Filamer Christian College Saint Gabriel College-Kalibo St. Anthony College of Roxas City University of Iloilo West Negros College Benedicto College Saint Paul College Foundation (Cebu) Southwestern University University of Bohol University of the Visayas Our Lady of Mercy College-Borongan Blancia Carreon College Foundation Medina College-Ipil Medina College-Pagadian Saint John College of Buug Foundation Lanao School of Science and Technology Lyceum of Iligan Foundation Medina College-Ozamis Misamis University-Ozamis City North Central Mindanao CollegesMati Doctors College Mindanao Medical Foundation College North Davao College-Tagum Foundation Polytechnic College of Davao del Sur Tecarro College Foundation University of the Immaculate Conception Colegio de Kidapawan Cotabato Medical Foundation College Dr. Domingo B. Tamondong Memorial School Dr. P. Ocampo Colleges North Valley College FoundationNotre Dame of Kidapawan College Sultan Kudarat Educational College Sultan Kudarat Educational Institution The Doctors Clinic and Hospital School Foundation Arellano University-Manila De Los Santos-STI College De Ocampo Memorial College Dominican College Dr. Carlos S. Lanting College Emilio Aguinaldo College J. P. Sioson General Hospital and Colleges

La Consolacion College Manila Las Pias College Martinez Memorial College Mary Chiles College Olivarez College Perpetual Help College of Manila Philippine College of Health Sciences Philippine Rehabilitation Institute Foundation Southeast Asian College St. Jude College St. Rita Hospital College of Nursing and School of Midwifery The Family Clinic Unciano Colleges and General Hospital University of Perpetual Help Rizal World Citi Colleges Abra Valley Colleges Baguio Central University Cordillera Career Development College Divine Word College of Bangued Pines City Colleges University of Baguio Jamiatu Marawi Al-Islamia Foundation Mahardika Institute of Technology Mapandi Memorial College Notre Dame of Jolo College Butuan Doctors College Surigao Education Center Luna Goco College
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