Academic Quality Management (AQM) and Center for Innovative Education and Technology Integration (CIETI) in focus

New Academic offices in focus. Two new offices have been established to support the development of technology-based education and academic quality and standardization throughout the division.

Academic Quality Management (AQM) and Center for Innovative Education and Technology Integration (CIETI) in focus

The Academic Quality Management (AQM), headed by Ms. Rowena C. Laigo, RN, LPT, MAEd, its Director, supports the Academics Division in achieving standards of excellence and in promoting quality enhancement practices across division. Among its main objectives for the coming school years are:

• Operations Manual. AQM drafts its Operations Manual to guide the processes and procedures of the department.
• ISA Certification. AQM coordinates with the different colleges and departments to prepare DLSHSI to be ISA certified. Plans are underway to round-up the sub-committees focused on this initiative and to organize the documents and requirements for submission.
• PAASCU Accreditation. AQM collaborates with the offices concerned and committees to plan for the successful accreditation/re-accreditation of the Medicine, Nursing, Physical Therapy, and Radiologic Technology programs in 2019.

The Center for Innovative Education and Technology Integration (CIETI) promotes technology integration in education through innovative means. Mr. Marlon G. Gado, MLIS, the Director, leads the Center to pursue the following programs:

• Faculty/ASP training. CIETI plans to host an educational technology program/course for incoming Faculty/ASP (minimum course) and existing Faculty/ASP (structured training program) based on the Faculty/ASP development plan and CIETI committee recommendations delivered through hybrid distance learning.
• Learning Management System (LMS). CIETI coordinates with the different colleges to evaluate the existing learning management system. It shall present its recommendation on the Institute-wide use and implementation of LMS to complement learning and instruction.
• eLearning Summit. CIETI highlights the importance and application of technology to education through this event slated on January or July 2018.

Academic Administrators for SY 2017-2018 announced The following are the key Academic administrators effective SY 2017-2018:Juanito O. Cabanias, LPT, MAE, PhD
Vice Chancellor for Academics- June 01, 2017 – July 31, 2019

Engr. Eduardo B. Tibayan, Jr. MSc., PhD
Dean, College of Humanities and Sciences- August 01, 2017- July 31, 2020

Rolando M. Reyes, MD, MHPEd, FPCS, FPSGS, FPALES
Officer-in-Charge, College of Medical Laboratory Science- June 01, 2017- August 31, 2017

Susan A.  Olavidez, RRT, EdD
Dean, College of Medical Radiation Technology-June 01, 2017- July 31, 2018

Madeleine Grace M. Sosa, MD, FPPS, FPNA, FCNSP, MSCE
Dean, College of Medicine-June 01, 2017-  July 31, 2019

Restituta C. Tan, PhD, RM, RN, RGC
Dean, College of Nursing-June 01, 2017- July 31, 2018

Alicia P. Catabay, RPH, MSc., PhD
Dean, College of Pharmacy-June 01, 2017- July 31, 2018

Amiel C. Adajar, MD, FPARM
Dean, College of Rehabilitation Sciences-June 01, 2017-July 31, 2019

Jose Antonio P. Amistad, MD, FPSA
Dean, Office of Student Services – August 1, 2017- July 31, 2020

Naomi M. De Aro, RN, MAN, EdD
Registrar -June 01, 2017- July 31, 2019

Ma. Cecilia D. Licuan, PTRP, PhD
Director, Alumni Services and Continuing Professional Education – June 01, 2017- July 31, 2019

Efren M. Torres Jr., MLIS
Director, Romeo P. Ariniego, MD Library Services

Maria Corazon Gurango, MD, MPH, FPAFP
Director, Comprehensive Community Health Training Program – June 01, 2017- July 31, 2019

Vivian B. Ramirez, MSc
Director, Special Health Sciences High School- June 01, 2017- July 31, 2018

Rowena C. Laigo, RN, MAEd
Director, Academic Quality Management -June 01, 2017-July 31, 2018

Marlon G. Gado, MLIS
Director, Center for Innovative Education and Technology Integration -June 01, 2017- July 31, 2018

Emanuel Mat Cholo M. Ilagan
Officer, Lasallian Access and Success OfficeJune 01, 2017- July 31, 2018

Faculty/ASP/Non-Teaching Personnel/Students achievements

• VCA’s Research Award for Dr. Alely Reyes, Program Director, College of Nursing Graduate Studies for her research paper titled “Intimate Partner Violence from the Perspective of Caviteñas: Its Implication to the Nursing Profession” published in the Philippine Journal of Nursing (January to June 2016, Volume 86, No.1)
• Poster presentation of the study of Ms. Angelica G. Teves and Ms. Claudine Candy J. Cauilan, students from the College of Medical Laboratory Science on “Antiangiogenic Property of Anona muricata”  during the 3^rd Singapore Oncology Society held at One Farrer Hotel on July 7-8, 2017. The same paper has been accepted at Liverpool, UK in November 2017.
• Paper presentation of Mr. Romeo Ongpoy, Jr. from the College of Pharmacy at the 17^th Asian Conference on Clinical Pharmacy, Yogyakarta, Indonesia on July 28-30, 2017. This will be sponsored by CHED.

Faculty/ASP/Non-Teaching Personnel/Students activities

• Attendance of Ms. Karen Jeanet Navarro to the NIH Institute of Herbal Medicine, 3^rd Short Course on Transforming Philippine Plants into Quality Herbal Medicine for a Healthier Nation at L’Fisher Hotel, Bacolod City on June 26-29, 2017
• Attendance of Dean Alicia P. Catabay, Mr. Sigfredo B. Mata, Mr. Darwin I. Carrido, and Ms. Karen Jeanet Navarro, faculty members from the College of Pharmacy and Ms. Nicole Mendoza, Ms. Marian Cabalquinto, and Ms. Haddiya Mary Glenn Paraiso, research assistants from the Research Division to the 2017 National Science and Technology Week Forum on “Safety and Quality Considerations in the Development of Herbal Medicines” organized by PCHRD onJuly 12, 2017 at the Visayas Ballroom, Sofitel Philippine Plaza Hotel, CCP Complex, Pasay City

Updates from the Twenty-sixth Academic Operations Committee (VCA Council) Meeting held on July 6, 2017

• Approval of the Php12,000,000 Grant for the College of Medicine’s proposal to CHED entitled ”Innovation in Medical/Health Education and Interprofessionalism through Simulation Program: The Trainer, The Learner and the Vital Role of Standardized Patients”
• Facilitation of the Leadership Training Seminar Workshop by Comprehebsive Community Health Training Propgram (CCHTP) with the Bgy. Council Representatives, BHWs, and some community volunteers in Bgy. Baliwag, Magallanes, Cavite and Bgy. Pantihan 3 and Bgy. Pantihan 4 in Maragondon, Cavite last April and May 2017
• Community immersion activities of the students of the College of Medicine and the College of Rehabilitation Sciences in the 3 partner barangays in Cavite for SY 2017-2018 in coordination with CCHTP
  • First batch (June 1-July 15, 2017) of Clinical Clerks for their 6-week rotation in the Student Immersion Program, under the supervision of the Faculty of the  Department of Family and Community Medicine
  • First batch (July 2017) of PT Interns and OT Interns rotating with the Community-Oriented Rehabilitation Program (CORP), under the supervision of selected faculty members of the Dept. of Physical Therapy and Dept. of Occupational Therapy
• Alumni Homecoming of BSN Batch 1992 on July 17, 2017 – Outreach at Cavite Center for Mental Health, Trece Martires City to be followed by a mass and campus tour at DLSHSI