FAR EASTERN UNIVERSITY – MANILA

INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE MAJOR IN MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY
• The chairperson or commissioner shall be at
least:
Medical Technology Laws and Bioethics:
1. 40 years of age
PRC, CHED and CPD 2. With valid COR/professional license
and a valid professional ID card or a
PRC Functions valid certificate of competency
1. Professional Regulation 3. Familiar with the principles and
2. Quasi-judicial methods of professional regulation
3. Quasi-legislative and/or licensing
4. Executive 4. With at least 5 years of executive or
management experience
Quasi-judicial function

✓ Investigation of professional and examinees’: ✓ PRC must be headed by

o Unlawful o 1 chairperson
o Inappropriate behaviors o 2 commissioners
o Destructive behavior ✓ Term of office is 7 years
✓ No reappointment
Quasi-legislative function ✓ President of the Philippines has the right to
appoint
✓ Formulation of rules and policy

Executive Requirements to be part of PRC

✓ Regulatory policies: ✓ At least 1 commissioner is a past member or

o Implementation chair of PRB (Professional Regulatory Board)
o Administration Penalties for manipulation and other corrupt practices
o Enforcement in the conduct of professional examinations
Executive Order no. 200 • Any person who:
✓ Atty. Hermogenes Pobre (1992 Commissioner) o manipulates or rigs licensure
institutionalized the partial computerization of examination results
the licensure examinations. o secretly informs or makes known
✓ 1993 licensure examination questions
o Evolution of the type of exams ✓ Any person who manipulate
o Full implementation of computerized o Fine: 500k – 100k
exam o Imprisonment: 6 years and 1 day – 12
o Includes 15 professions years
✓ Test Question Data Bank • If offender is an officer or employee of the
✓ Optical Check Reader commission or a member of the regulatory
board
R.A 8981 (PRC Modernization Act of 2000) ✓ If an offender is an officer
o Remove from the office
• An act modernizing the professional regulation
o Subjected to perpetual absolute
commission repealing for the purpose PD no.
disqualification in Public Office
223 entitled “creating the professional
o Court will be the one to decided if fine
regulation commission and prescribing its
or imprisonment
powers and function” and for other purposes.
• Approved: December 5, 200

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FAR EASTERN UNIVERSITY – MANILA
INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE MAJOR IN MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY
• No MT/MLS student shall be allowed to graduate
unless he or she has completed all academic
R.A 7722 (Higher Education Act of 1994)
internship requirements
• An act creating the commission on higher
education, appropriating funds and for other
Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
purposes
• Approved: May 18, 1994 • Republic Act. No 10912
• Composition of the commission: 5 full-time • Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Act of
members 2016
✓ 5 members • An act which requires CPD as the mandatory
o President of the Philippines decides the requirement for the renewal of professional
chairperson and 4 commissioners identification card
o Should be holders of doctorate degree • Approved: July 21, 2016
o Actively engage in higher education for ✓ Every 3 years – renewal of license
at least 10 years ✓ To renew license: accomplish given no. of CPD units
o Should not be candidate at any
elections Year RMT MLT
2018 30 units 20 units
CMO no. 8 series of 1998 2019 onwards 45 units 30 units

• Subject: Updated policies and standards for Medical

Technology education PRC Resolution no. 1032 series of 2017
• Approved: January 21, 1998
• Implementing Rules of Regulation of R.A 10912,
• Medical Technology school with a qualified Dean
otherwise known as CPD Act of 2016
and Faculty
• Approved: February 15, 2017
• MT Schools
• Effectivity: March 15, 2017
✓ Qualified Dean
o Filipino TERMS:
o Good moral
CPD
o Masters in MT
✓ Faculty ✓ Inculcation of advance knowledge, skills, ethical
o 1 year training MT interns values in post-licensure specialization
o Or 1 year experience in clinical practice
✓ Licensed Physician CPD credit unit
o 2 years in clinical practice ✓ Amount of learning that could be transferred as
CMO no. 27 series of 1998 qualification

• Subject: Curriculum for the common 2-year CPD provider

Associate in Health Science Education (AHSE) ✓ Conducts program or seminar
o ASHE for General Education ✓ Accredited by CPD Council
o 73 units of Gen.Ed
• Approved: April 22, 1998 CPD council

✓ Implement and promote CPD program

CMO no. 13 series of 2017 ✓ Functions:
o Ensure adequate and appropriate CPD
• Subject: Policies, standards, guidelines for the programs
Bachelor of Science in Medical Technology Program
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FAR EASTERN UNIVERSITY – MANILA
INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE MAJOR IN MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY
o Act on the applications for accreditation
of CPD provider and their CPD program

PRC of Medical Technology Resolution no. 7 series of

2018

• Operational guidelines on the implementation of R.A

10912, otherwise known as CPD Act of 2016 for
Medical Technologists
• Approved: April 16, 2018
• Effectivity: May 5, 2018
✓ Own guidelines in CPD program
✓ CPD Council = Meeting every 4th Thursday (Meeting
about CPD)

PRC Resolution no. 1146 series of 2019

• Amending Relevant Provisions of Resolution no.

1032 series of 2017 otherwise known as
Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) of R.A
10912, known as the CPD Act of 2016
• Approved: February 7, 2019
• Effectivity: March 1, 2019
✓ Newly licensed professional: CPD – 15 units
o First renewal – NO CPD Renewal
o Second renewal – CPD Units renewal
✓ 1 credit unit = 1 hour

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