====== School of Health Sciences ======

| [[#message_from_the_dean|Message from the Dean]] |
| [[#history|History]] |
| [[#mission_and_vision|Mission and Vision]] |
| [[#core_values|Core Values]] |
| [[#accreditation_profile|Accreditation Profile]] |
| [[#academic_programs_offered|Academic Programs Offered]] |
| [[#other_programs_offered|Other Programs Offered]] |

=== Message from the Dean ===
For nearly five decades, the University of the Philippines Manila–School of Health Sciences (UPM-SHS) has remained steadfast in its mandate to transform health professions education in service of the Filipino people. Founded on the principles of social accountability and equity, the School was established to address the persistent maldistribution of health workers and to develop competent, community-oriented health professionals committed to underserved and marginalized communities.\\

Through its innovative stepladder curriculum, UPM-SHS produces a continuum of health professionals—from midwives and nurses to physicians—equipped with the competencies, compassion, and commitment necessary for responsive primary health care and community development. The School’s graduates are not only scientifically grounded and clinically competent but are also deeply rooted in the realities of the communities they serve.\\

Today, the School proudly continues its mission of democratizing access to education, empowering communities to develop their own health workforce, and strengthening health systems through education, service, and research. Our vision is a corps of socially accountable health leaders who embody the University’s honor and excellence in service to the nation.\\
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//Prof.  Charlie E. Labarda, MD, PhD//\\
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=== Date of BOR Approval ===
April 29, 1976\\
871st BOR Meeting\\
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=== History ===
In the seventies, the disturbing picture of the country’s health and health manpower situation placed the UP College of Medicine in a dilemma regarding its role in nation building.\\

Its high standards of admission, performance, and commitment to academic excellence made its graduates leaders in Philippine medicine and its curriculum the model for other medical schools to copy. However, these gave rise to over-specialization, the brain drain, maldistribution of health manpower who were disproportionately concentrated in urban areas and neglect of rural areas.\\

In 1971, Dr. Francisco Nemenzo, then Dean of the UP College of Arts and Sciences in Diliman, expressed that the fierce competition for admission to the College of Medicine was breeding a generation of individualistic, self-centered, grade-conscious arts and sciences students who cared not for knowledge and how it could help serve their people but for good grades that would allow them to enter the College of Medicine.\\

Dean Florentino B. Herrera, Jr of the College of Medicine thereafter convened an “Extraordinary Curriculum Committee of the College of Medicine” to design a medical curriculum that would develop graduates who were not only scientifically disciplined and medically competent but more importantly, socially conscious, community-oriented, and firmly committed to the service of the people, thus giving birth to the stepladder curriculum and the Institute of Health Sciences (IHS).\\

The UP IHS was established on June 28, 1976 in Tacloban City, Leyte as a joint endeavor of the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Local Government and Community Development, and the UP System. The Step-Ladder Curriculum was approved by the UP Board of Regents during its 371st meeting on April 29, 1976. With the support of the governor’s staff,  IHS opened its doors to a select group of 96 students whose NCEE scores ranged from a high of 90 to a low of 9. They began with the Certificate in Community Health Work (CHW), leading to the degree of BS Rural Medicine.\\

In 1981, the SHS campus moved to its present location in the town of Palo on a 4,083-square-meter lot donated by the Municipality of Palo, Leyte on August 9, 1980 through the efforts of Don Pio Pedrosa. The donation was put into effect by virtue of Resolution 82-71 on October 20, 1982.\\

On May 3, 1989, after 13 years of operation, during which it was referred to as the “Tacloban Experiment,” the IHS was renamed as the School of Health Sciences and elevated to the status of a regular unit by virtue of the Reorganization Act of UP Manila.\\
=== Vision and Mission ===
== Vision ==
SHS as a relevant center of excellence for innovative health human resource development for the attainment of health for marginalized Filipinos in the context of nationalism and globalization in the 21st century\\
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== Mission ==
  - Develop relevant and excellent health practitioners committed to serve the marginalized sectors of the country
  - Develop innovative undergraduate, graduate and short courses attuned to the health needs of the country
  - Develop outstanding faculty committed to the attainment of institutional goals/mandate;
  - Strengthen the unit’s research capability and undertake researches crucial to the enhancement of innovative health sciences education and the country’s total health development
  - Collaborate with other health science institutions in developing, implementing and evaluating health sciences education curricula
=== Core Values ===
Honor, Service Excellence, Social Accountability\\

=== Accreditation Profile ===
PAASCU Level 1\\
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The Ladder-type Community-Based Health Sciences program (Diploma in Midwifery, Bachelor of Science in Nursing, and Doctor of Medicine) is granted initial three-year accreditation until May 2028 by PAASCU.\\

=== List of Departments, Institutes, Centers, or Units ===
  - Department of Medicine
  - Department of Nursing
  - Department of Midwifery
  - SHS Baler Extension Campus
  - SHS Koronadal Extension Campus
  - SHS Tarlac Extension Campus
=== List of Degree Programs ===
^ [[The Innovative Step-Ladder Curriculum]] ^
| [[The Innovative Step-Ladder Curriculum#diploma_in_midwifery_(community_health_work)|Diploma in Midwifery (DM)]] |
| [[The Innovative Step-Ladder Curriculum#bachelor_of_science_in_nursing|BS in Nursing (BSN)]] | 
| [[The Innovative Step-Ladder Curriculum#doctor_of_medicine|Doctor of Medicine (MD)]] |

=== List of Laboratories, Facilities, and other Infrastructures ===
  - Multidisciplinary Laboratory (MDL)
  - Clinical Simulation Laboratory (formerly NAL)
  - College Library
  - Health Service Clinic
  - Guidance and Counseling Office