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Hello. Can anyone tell me the pros and cons of Cebu Doctor's College and Cebu Institute of Medicine? Thanks.
CIM has a better reputation in the Philippines in terms of Board passing. However from previous posts, it seems that Cebu Doctors have slightly better facilities (air-conditioned rooms). Either one of them should be ok for a motivated student.gil t azel said:Hello. Can anyone tell me the pros and cons of Cebu Doctor's College and Cebu Institute of Medicine? Thanks.
gil t azel said:Hello. Can anyone tell me the pros and cons of Cebu Doctor's College and Cebu Institute of Medicine? Thanks.
yourmom said:Hello gil t azel! I believe we are both searching for the same information regarding CDU and CIM. Have you heard anything else that is helpful?
gil t azel said:No, just the info from those 2 websites above.
savi said:Hi!
I have some friends who graduated from CIM. Their opinions are very different...
The young ones (graduated within the past 5 years) have not so great feedback about their training. They say that it "unnecessarily" makes the training hard
The older more established doctors (consultants, residents, etc) advise me to go to CIM bec they say that although the training is really tough, one can be sure that the education is all worth it.
So, you can see that although both groups have different feelings toward CIM, both agree about the tough training.
ad hominem on the opinions?
There was a member on this forum who's a first year at CIM, and gave good feedback about her year so far.
I visited Cebu Doc and CIM last Dec. Cebu Doc does have more modern buildings and the air-con that was sooooo..... coooooold
CIM looked old but I didn't get inside a classroom.
P.S. No doctor I've asked so far, has recommended Cebu Doc to me.
gil t azel said:Thanks for the info Savi. How were you able to see Cebu Doctors? Did you arrange a tour? Do you happen to know the donation fee for any of them?
gil t azel said:Hello. Can anyone tell me the pros and cons of Cebu Doctor's College and Cebu Institute of Medicine? Thanks.
As you will find out later, many schools dont have any strict cutoff score due to the lack of applicants. Of course, try to do well so you can get admitted to selective schools (UST has 65 for cutoff) but you can go to med school with any score.gibbarBSN said:what's the national passing of NMAT exam? hehe tanx
gil t azel said:Thanks for the info Savi. How were you able to see Cebu Doctors? Did you arrange a tour? Do you happen to know the donation fee for any of them?
Wow thats great! No Donation fee. What do you mean by standard donation fee..... Phil schools in general?baging said:No donation fee for CIM . The standard donation fee for foreign students would be around 1,000 USD per sem or something like that. But you might get more info by inquiring these schools by e-mail.
gil t azel said:Hello. Can anyone tell me the pros and cons of Cebu Doctor's College and Cebu Institute of Medicine? Thanks.
gibbarBSN said:what's the national passing of NMAT exam? hehe tanx
gibbarBSN said:u got the chance to choose ur school huh.. i got speculations if i could qualify for med shool. im gonna take the nmat by december this year.
marbok3891 said:I enrolled in CIM because of its board passing track record, it ranks second only to UP-PGH. I have to say that in my first few weeks at CIM I was filled with despair. The facilities were dismal - 'lacking' is a better term, and their implementation of the Problem Based Learning (PBL) system didn't seem well executed to me. We were the 6th batch of PBL students and I guess there were still some kinks in the new system that they had to figure out. In all fairness to the faculty, they put a lot of effort in ironing out the problems that arise with PBL. The facilities are also being upgraded right now! I'm finally seeing some hope in my decision to come to CIM.
The latest board passing rate for the school was 97%! The doctors who took that particular board exam were the last of the school's graduates of the Traditional system (non-PBL). The upcoming board exam will be taken by CIM's 1st batch of PBL students, so we'll see how well they do...
With regards to CDC, they have state of the art facilities. I'll grant them that, but I never considered going there because they are nowhere near the top 10 medical schools in the country.
jetskiters said:well guys, just thought you'd find this article interesting:
3 Cebu Students in Top 10 of board exams for doctors (August 19, 2006)
wooohooo! proud to be Cebuano!
im'a be admitting myself to cdu-cm this summer.. took my pre-med there, i think the school's doing just fine, it's pretty hard to compare to UP's standards, let's do cdu-cm some fair justice its not like acaddoc've experienced CIM personally himself.
Hello. Can anyone tell me the pros and cons of Cebu Doctor's College and Cebu Institute of Medicine? Thanks.
thank you so much for the insights.
i am an incoming med student this june and i intend to study here in cebu., although i graduated from up diliman. but i am having a hard time deciding where to enroll. im still waiting for CIM to release their results for qualified applicants (im done with their interview already). and i have been already accepted at Cebu Doctors' - their admission process got me by surprise. upon submitting the requirements, i was then immediately interviewed by the dean and at the end of the interview, he told me that i was accepted and that i could already enroll. that was really fast! i wonder if everyone who applied got his/her results immediately.
is CIM really strict with their application requirements, e.g NMAT score, GWA, and interview? how many students do they usually accept each year? basing on the pros and cons presented here, i am leaning towards CIM. being doctors, my parents have also encouraged me to enroll in CIM if ever i get accepted. but i have also heard from my cousins who are currently enrolled there that they prioritize students from velez college. how true is this? as an "outsider", what are my chances that i get accepted at CIM?
thanks for your possible insights.
CIM accepted me also, in spite of my low GPA. However, that was after 1.5 hours of grilling on the subject of my bad undergraduate performance .
I was accepted to CDU right after the "interview" as well. Interview is in quotes because it wasn't really one. They asked if i have any questions, and told me I was accepted. CIM accepted me also, in spite of my low GPA. However, that was after 1.5 hours of grilling on the subject of my bad undergraduate performance .
i wonder why AdMU-Quezon City is on the list. ASMPH is just about to open this june.
The following webpage is in reference to the Physician Licensure Examinations given last February 2007:
http://www.slu.edu.ph/exam_pdf/physician_200701.pdf
here, you can see that the only medical schools in the philippines with 100% passing rate are:
1. Ateneo de Manila University-Quezon City
2. Cebu Institute of Medicine
3. Fatima Medical Science Institution- Valenzuela
4. Iligan Institure of Technology
5. Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila
6. University of the Philippines- Manila
Most likely there was a lot of error in that list, especially with Ateneo on the list.i came across this thread just now. i don't believe what's listed there. wherever you got that, it's not credible nor reliable. maybe it was referring to another profession, & not medicine.
ADMU-Quezon city and Iligan Institute of Technology are included?! who are you fooling?!
like someone else said, Ateneo School of Medicine & Public Health just started this june. Thus, their 1st batch of medical graduates will only be eligible to take the local licensure exams on 2012.
Iligan institute of technology does NOT have a medical school.
I included school rank as a factor in choosing a med school to attend in the Philippines and got burned. Here is the sad truth as I see it: rank says very little about the quality of education.