Title
Uniform Medical Certificate for Driver's License
Law
Lto Memorandum Circular No. Ahs-2008-273
Decision Date
Dec 18, 2008
All medical certificates for driver's license applicants must now adhere to a standardized format, ensuring clarity and completeness in health assessments by accredited physicians, as mandated by the LTO.

Questions (LTO MEMORANDUM CIRCULAR NO. AHS-2008-273)

It is issued pursuant to Administrative Order No. RIB-2007-012 dated 17 May 2007, revising the rules and regulations governing the supervision and control over accredited physicians.

All medical certificates issued by any government or accredited physician must be in the prescribed form, using white bond paper, as attached to the circular.

They must be printed/issued using white bond paper.

The accredited physician should write legibly his findings and recommendations.

The physician must use terms that can be understood even by non-medical personnel.

Visual acuity, hearing, general physique, blood pressure, height, weight, and the presence or absence of contagious diseases.

Comments/remarks on other conditions of the applicant affecting his fitness to drive should be indicated.

They shall not accept medical certificates that do not conform to the prescribed form and are not properly and completely filled up with the required entries.

No. The accredited physician is no longer required to check the kind of driver’s license being applied for.

It was adopted on 18 December 2008.

It is signed by an Assistant Secretary of the Department of Transportation and Communications/LTO authority context, with the signature of ALBERTO H. SUANSING.

All orders and memoranda in conflict herewith are deemed superseded.

To ensure that LTO personnel and non-medical staff can understand the physician’s findings/recommendations when assessing the certificate.

To standardize medical assessments for driver’s licensing by requiring all covered certificates to follow a prescribed format and complete required medical entries.


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