When I was searching for Mindanao State University College of Medicine-related websites, I came across this question raised by one of the Yahoo! Answers users:

Is MSU-Iligan City, a good training ground for future physicians?

The chosen best answer was:

it is a state run university. with the subsidies it got from the government, it should have all the faculties and facilities available to a promising doctors of medicine. some doctors in our area are a product of MSU-iligan. they prefer to practice their profession here than going out of the country. they love serving their countrymen. that is i am so proud of them.

The respondent was right about saying that it is a state-run university and gets support from the government and it should be expected to have all the faculty and facilities available for its students. Actually, the other way around is happening in MSU College of Medicine. It does not have the faculty (I mean, enough number) of it, but it has the determined, competent and dedicated faculty and staff.

Since I am an MSU-an (a student from MSU), I would be biased that I will say “Yes! MSU College of Medicine should be the right school for you.”

We have smaller number of faculty members, but what we have are determined, equally competent from other faculty members of several universities, and dedicated enough to implement the vision of MSU-College of Medicine, which is “Health for all Mindanaoans.”

We don’t have cadavers like any other school nor a laboratory section, but we are exposed to several operative procedures as early as the third year clerkship. That should be enough to learn our anatomy.

Our graduates’ performance in the boards have been proving that MSU-College of Medicine is indeed a good training ground for future physicians.