De La Salle Medical and Health Sciences Institute (DLSMHSI) is a full-complement medical and health allied institution that provides holistic, excellent, and premium medicine and health professions education, health care, and research services in a nurturing God-centered environment as it pursues its commitment of Nurturing life.
The Institute has three major services: medical and health sciences education, health care through De La Salle University Medical Center, and the De La Salle Angelo King Medical Research Center.
Its medical school provides the biggest scholarship program for students of medicine in the Philippines, providing not only free tuition but also housing, books, and food allowance to qualified students. DLSUMC is the biggest tertiary hospital in the region which provides the most advanced services and facilities for health care. It is also committed to making quality health care accessible to the poor. Its Charity Outpatient Department and Charity Ward provide free medical services to thousands of poor patients every year. The DLS AKMRC — which is capable of conducting clinical trials for FDA registration of food, drugs, and devices — performs the most number of clinical trials each year among private medical research institutions in the Philippines. It is the first in the country to have been chosen by the US NIH to be a clinical research site for a global study.