QuestionsQuestions (LETTER OF INSTRUCTIONS NO. 377)
To ensure the effective implementation of the 6-month rural training program for nurses and physicians under the Rural Health Practice Program, aimed at making more health and medical services available to rural areas.
The Professional Regulation Commission (through its Commissioner).
They must present a duly signed certificate of completion of the 6-month rural training program as a prerequisite to registration.
Both successful examinees of the medical board examinations and those of the nursing board examinations.
A 6-month rural training program.
The Department of Health (Department of Health conceived the 6-month rural training program).
A duly signed certificate of completion of the 6-month rural training program.
It applies to successful examinees (i.e., those who passed the board examinations) and makes training completion a prerequisite to registration.
By directing the Professional Regulation Commission to require the certificate of completion from successful examinees before allowing their registration.
It directs the PRC Commissioner to require the training completion certificate from successful examinees as a condition for registration.
They cannot be registered with the Professional Regulation Commission because the certificate is required as a prerequisite.
Ferdinand E. Marcos, President of the Republic of the Philippines.
To make available more health and medical services to rural areas.
It implies formal proof issued with proper authorization/signature confirming completion of the 6-month rural training.
They must complete the 6-month rural training and obtain the certificate before the PRC registration step, even if they already passed the board exams.