Monday, May 28, 2007

What’s up with Dipolog Medical College’s nursing graduates?

May 08, 2007 14:12:00INQUIRER.net
My name is Darren Smith, an American college professor based in Florida USA. As a college educator for the last ten years, I have followed nursing education in the Philippines very closely. Of foreign nurses, 40% are from the Philippines.
I would like to share the case of nursing students attending Dipolog Medical College in Dipolog City who are being prevented from taking nursing licensure exam in June 2007.
This particular school has a passing rate below 30% in the nursing board exam, consistently ranking in the bottom 20% of nursing schools in Philippines. For schools with more than 30 students, DMC is 12th from the bottom, with a passing rate of 25% last December and 28% last June. From 2000 to 2004 DMCCFI had a passing rate below 40% - a long history of poor performance.

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The nursing scandal

April 10, 2007 14:32:00Rodel Rodis INQUIRER.net
Starting this week some 10,000 Philippine nurses who passed the tainted June 2006 Philippine nursing board exams will be taking review classes, paid for by the Philippine government, to retake two sections of the nursing exams they already passed – a requirement imposed by the United States’ Commission on Graduates of Foreign Nursing Schools (CGFNS) for Philippine nurses who wish to work in the US.
The retaking the 2006 exams may not end the controversy which has damaged the reputation of Filipino nurses throughout the world. "The outcome of the ongoing scandal on the alleged leakage in the June 2006 Nursing Board Examination could make or break the future of Filipino nurses who intend to work abroad," the Philippine Daily Inquirer noted,
The controversy began with the discovery of a “leakage” of exam questions disseminated by two nurses review centers to their examinees in Baguio City and perhaps other locales. The examinees were provided with

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10,000 nursing passers to retake tainted June 2006 exams

April 03, 2007 20:36:00Jerome Aning Inquirer
MANILA, Philippines -- About 10,000 of the 17,000 passers of leak-tainted 2006 nursing licensure exams have registered for a retake, according to the Department of Labor and Employment.
DoLE also reminded re-takers who wanted to avail of free review that Wednesday would be the deadline for registering for the special review classes.
Of those who registered for the retake, 9,450 confirmed to take the review. As of March 31, Metro Manila, the Cordillera Administrative Region and Central Visayas accounted for 7,200 retake applicants

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