THE DEPARTMENT OF ANATOMY occupies the 2nd and 3rd floors of the Calderon Hall of the U.P. COLLEGE OF MEDICINE. Its major facilities include the Dualan Anatomy Dissection laboratory, Histochemistry Laboratory, Histology East Microscopy laboratory, Bone Laboratory, Virtual Anatomy Laboratory (3D Anatomy tables) and an Embalming facility. We are committed to the development of a fully equipped state of the art academic unit of the College that will provide an optimum teaching and learning environment for our faculty, medical students and residents and fellows from the different clinical specialties of the UP-PGH Medical Center. Most recent renovations include the Histology East Microscopy laboratory, faculty lounge, faculty rooms, Class 1974 computer laboratory/conference room, bone laboratory, plastination/model room and the Dr. Mariano de la Cruz Jr. Alcove. A newly installed elevator allows transport of chemicals and cadavers from the ground floor of Calderon Hall to the Histochemistry laboratory and Dualan dissection laboratory respectively. Currently undergoing renovations are the Chairman's complex, Histochemistry laboratory, Mariano V. de la Cruz Jr. Classroom and the J. Dualan dissection laboratory. Future plans for the department are the acquisition of a Virtual Histology slide scanner and renovation of the Embalming room with the incorporation of an 80-body cold storage facility.
The Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (DBMB) is a dynamic basic science
department in the College of Medicine, UP Manila. Its highly qualified faculty is made
up of both non-medical experts with Doctor of Philosophy degrees (PhD) as well as clinicians
with Masters (MSc) and Doctorate degrees as well with diverse clinical specialties and
subspecialties. It espouses superior academic performance among its medical and graduate
students in the fields of biochemistry, molecular cell biology and genetics.
DBMD enjoys relevance in this current burgeoning era of biotechnology and molecular
medicine. It is a leading and acknowledged provider of graduate education in Biochemistry
in the country through its Masters and PhD programs. The faculty has also influenced much
of the teaching of biochemistry in medical schools through the biochemical societies it has
helped established.
The Department also endeavors in numerous student and faculty-led
researches through grants from the University and other premier funding agencies. It continues
to aggressively enhance its laboratory facilities and staff through capacity and capability
building, driven by adopting a strategic view of the country's research agenda.
Clinical Epidemiology is the "study of groups of people to achieve the background
evidence needed for clinical decisions in patient care" (White, 1996). It must
generate the best possible evidence from groups of individuals regarding the
effectiveness and efficiency of various clinical courses of action. It must also
translate this evidence (or the lack thereof) into rational clinical decisions
pertaining to the management of individual patients.
Clinical Epidemiology utilizes techniques developed by classical epidemiology
and adapts these to the study of individual patients. It incorporates concepts
from related fields such as Biostatistics, Health Social Science, and Health Economics.
It deals mainly with the teaching of clinical research methodology and evidence-based
medicine. Clinical Epidemiology is an evolving discipline and is considered as a basic
science in clinical medicine.
On February 11, 1927, Act No. 3340 was enacted, creating a School of Sanitation and Public Health in the University of the Philippines. Since the founding of the School, Sanitary Bacteriology was included as one of the disciplines taught. In 1932, the Department of Sanitary Bacteriology and Immunology was created as one of the four original departments that conducted teaching and research activities of the School. The department was given its current name, Department of Medical Microbiology, in 1957. Through the years, the Department has produced several noteworthy contributions for the betterment of Public Health in the Philippines, in the ASEAN Region, and globally
Vision
The Department of Parasitology will take a lead role in the teaching,
training and research of parasitic diseases and their control.
Mission
The mission of the Department of Parasitology states four goals namely, (1) to provide education
and training in all aspects of parasitic diseases and their vectors, (2)to conduct basic and
applied researches in parasitic diseases and vector control, (3)to provide laboratory services
in the diagnosis of parasitic diseases, and (4)to provide extension services in the planning,
implementation and evaluation of parasitic disease control program.
Pathology traces its origins in 1907 as one of the very first departments of the erstwhile Philippine Medical School, initially called the Department of Pathology and Bacteriology, servicing nearby hospitals of Old Manila. It found its physical home when the medical school building was built in 1910, the same year the Philippine General Hospital opened. Its first faculty of American physicians were gradually replaced in the late 1920s by Filipinos, the latter representing the first formally trained pathologists of the country. The second half of the 20th century saw the department's faculty broadening its expertise as subspecialists were added to its roster after training abroad in fields like Gynecologic Pathology, Neuropathology, Bone Pathology, Renal Pathology, Hematopathology, Pediatric Pathology, Microbiology, Clinical Chemistry, Head and Neck Pathology, Cytopathology, and Forensic Pathology. To this day, the department continues the tradition of academic excellence as its faculty teaches medical students and pathology residents in training.
The Philippine Medical School, the forerunner of the University of the Philippines College of Medicine, was established by virtue of the Second Philippine Commission Act 1415 dated December 1, 1905, as a response to the urgent need for more doctors in the country. The school opened on June 10, 1907, occupying the old structure of the School for the Deaf and Blind on Bonifacio Drive (previously Malecon Drive) while its own building on Pedro Gil Street (previously Herran) was being constructed. On June 1, 1910, the school transferred to its present site.. Three months after the transfer of the College at Pedro Gil Street, the Philippine General Hospital was opened and that became the University's teaching hospital. During the first five years of existence of the Philippine Medical School, Pharmacology as a subject was taught by the Department of Physiology. Lectures in pharmacology and toxicology were given in the first semester of the second year of the medical course, while pharmacy materiamedica and therapeutics were taken up in the third year.
The Department of Physiology was one the eight original departments of the Philippine Medical School (Old name of UP College of Medicine) when the school's charter was approved in 1905. Throughout its history, the department has remained a trailblazer in teaching and research. It was the first department to adopt new trends in medical education, it encouraged individual laboratory experiences to develop student creativity and independence and it offered the only postgraduate course MS Physiology in the Philippines. The department has been in the forefront of medical research such "Normal Standards for Ventilatory Function Test in Adult Filipinos", "Philippine Normal Reference Values for Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing", "Determination of normative reference for the definition of sarcopenia among Filipinos"; and "Reference intervals for total testosterone levels in young adult Filipino males". In 1998, the department published the first Filipino textbook in Integrative Physiology and a second edition in 2005. Technology development is being pursued with the invention of a local EMG and presently ongoing development of a local respirator. In testimony of this drive for excellence, the department was awarded the "Most Outstanding Department in the Basic Sciences" for four consecutive years (1995-1999).