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Vol. 5 No. 3, March 2021 Let’s ACHIEVE! By SHIRLEY C. AGRUPIS “We continue to improve and move forward.” MSU has proven its to note our conformances to the resilience in this time of international standards as well as our best M COVID-19 pandemic as practices in meeting the needs of our evidenced by its continued efforts to stakeholders. implement a Quality Management —o0o— May we continue to lead the way System that is customer-focused and forward and make a lasting impact excellence-driven. Indeed, we have I am pleased to greet you as we join on everyone. gone through a lot of learning the celebration of Women’s History experiences in 2020 that application Month in the United States, and National —o0o— of these in our own Quality Women’s Month here in the Philippines. Management System is a continuous These month-long celebrations testify to In this time of the pandemic, and ongoing process. This month, the crucial role and contribution of where media has played a key role in we continue learning and women in the history of both nations, keeping us informed and guided of reconstructing our collective and indeed, around the world. We what is happening in the various areas experiences in relation to our QMS celebrate the innate strength and power of the country and the world, we all through the Surveillance audit by of women as they make significant saw the importance of information Socotec Auditors, virtually this time impact and change in their own dissemination to aid us in developing due to the current situation. I am communities, even as we advocate gender rules and regulations, protocols, and sure that this exercise will provide an equality, women empowerment, and policies to safeguard our constituents. avenue for us to improve our inclusivity in all fronts. processes and address the identified The training on news and feature gaps of the existing QMS. On behalf of Mariano Marcos State writing is a start to your bigger role University, let me express our gratitude of making known the researches, While our collective efforts for the for this opportunity to help amplify the programs, projects, and activities you successful implementation of our QMS voices and experiences of women in breed in your respective are undeniable, we still need to have an order to inspire others. I am proud that organizations. assessment by third-party auditors who today, MMSU have produced will provide us insights and feedback homegrown women who continue to Moreover, this is also the start of needed for continual improvement. Just shine their light amid the pandemic – they your active role of bringing like in program and institutional who are women of strength, resilience information and technologies closer accreditations by AACCUP and CHED, and hope. to the people, not only as an we recognize the importance of “peer announcement of an activity we evaluation” to help us examine closer the Now, the challenge is to develop conducted, but a pathway by which implementation of the QMS in our more women leaders who are passionate we reach more of our community respective offices and colleges. This is about their causes, and who are willing to people, and we make the noise we another milestone in our history as part share their talents and insights to want to ring to engage other of our university-wide ISO QMS empower others, in the hope of uniting institutions and organizations toward journey which started last March 2019 everyone – men and women alike – in inclusive and sustainable with the kind assistance of the our collective action to protect the development. Development Academy of the environment. Philippines. It is the time to continue In these challenging times where without let-up, continually implement, Let me share to you a quotation by communication is of utmost evaluate, and improve our QMS and Richard Rogers: “The only way forward, importance to keep on track the satisfy the needs and expectations of our if we are going to improve the quality of decisions from the government to stakeholders. the environment, is to get everybody the contexts of our grassroot involved.” That means that if we want to fellows, so is this training a relevant We at MMSU know that Socotec’s change our environment, we need to tool for you to help in nation- objective evaluation will result to the include everyone; if we want our society building through innovation, identification of our gaps so that we to prosper, we need to be united, and we knowledge-sharing, as well as may devise strategies to address them need a partner to help us do so; and if policy-development and the soonest possible time. At the same we want our society to prosper, we need recommendations. time, we also hope that we may be able a united people. 2 Office for Strategic Communication Vol. 5 No. 3, March 2021 Back-to-back stellar performance MMSU posts 100% rating anew in physician exam By DANIEL P. TAPAOAN, JR. he lone medical school in and a graduate of St. Luke’s Medical as the consultants of the Mariano Ilocos Norte is indeed on a Center COM - William H. Quasha Marcos Memorial Hospital and Medical Troll. Memorial, emerged Top 7 in the said Center and the Baguio City General exam. Hospital and Medical Center for their For the second time, MMSU overwhelming support to the graduates. College of Medicine (COM) has The Professional Regulation achieved another 100 percent passing Commission (PRC) released the test Expressing its heartfelt rate in the March 2021 Physician results last March 19 in various testing commendations, the MMSU-COM Licensure Examination, with one of its center in the country. A total of 1,234 Medical Students Association posted on pioneer graduates landing as a passed the exam out of 1,927 Facebook, “Your triumph and success is topnotcher. examinees, posting a 64.03 percent most definitely not a sole function of national passing rate. baseline intelligence. It’s putting your Dr. Jaymee B. Quindara, who was untiring efforts and unending also the COM’s Class 2019 MMSU President Shirley C. Agrupis perseverance in getting that elusive Valedictorian, landed ninth in the lauded this another achievement of the license.” examination with a passing rate of College, saying that the whole university 86.92 percent. Other passers were Dr. community “celebrates with your In November 2020, all seven Aileen Concepcion M. Agustin, Dr. success and is very proud of you.” pioneer graduates of MMSU-COM Charis Vina E. Keith, Dr. Elma Flor also passed the examination. “We wish you all the best, our new O. Delos Santos-Lucero, and Dr. medical doctors, as you join the roster Jonathan C. Lim. Established in 2015, the COM is the of dignified practitioners,” she added. youngest college in the University and Also, Dr. Dane Mikhael S. Calica, COM Dean Ricardo S. Guanzon medical school in northern Luzon. an MMSU alumnus (BS Biology ’13) thanked the MMSU community, as well Office for Strategic Communication 3 Vol. 5 No. 3, March 2021 One of the few SUCs in PH MMSU earns IA Level III MSU is truly levelling up Top 4 in the Highest Percentage of and constituents for “doing their part and moving forward in terms Accredited Programs over the total committedly.” She added, “These M of quality and excellence in accreditable programs from 1992- milestones would not have been higher education. 2019; Top 3 in the Highest Number achieved without your full support and of Level III Accredited Programs in love for MMSU.” The Mariano Marcos State University 2019; Top 3 in the Most Improved (MMSU) obtained the Level III Internal Quality Assurance Unit in Last December 2020, the University Institutional Accreditation (IA) granted by 2019; and Top 5 in the Highest faced the online IA through evaluation the Accrediting Agency of Chartered Number of Level III Accredited on nine areas: governance and Colleges and Universities in the Programs in 2020. management; teaching, learning and Philippines, Inc. (AACCUP) this year. evaluation; faculty and staff; research; The awarding ceremony was held extension, consultancy, and linkages; With this, MMSU earned the online last March 12, which support to students; library; distinction as one of the few state culminated the 34th Virtual AACCUP infrastructure and other learning universities and colleges (SUCs) in the Annual Conference which started last resources; and quality assurance culture. country with the highest accreditation March 10. IA is considered a big boost to SUCs in status so far. terms of SUC levelling, normative “All to God’s glory,” exclaimed financing, and forging international Apart from this, the AACCUP also MMSU President Shirley C. Agrupis linkages. – DP Tapaoan awarded four major awards to MMSU: as she thanked the University officials MMSU gains headway to PRIME-HRM accreditation enchmarking with the best CSC Ilocos Norte Director Rex officials and the rank-and-file practices in human resource R. said the recognition only shows that employees in fulfilling the institution’s Bmanagement, the Mariano MMSU is beaitng COVID-19, and it vision. Marcos State University (MMSU) is has proven that “no pandemic can gaining headway to obtain the Civil stop us for accomplishing great things Anent this, the university has Service Commission’s (CSC) in the name of public service.” institutionalized its inclusive individual Program to Institutionalize manpower development plan, revised Meritocracy and Excellence in MMSU President Shirley C. the personnel scholarship guidelines, Human Resource Management Agrupis said the awards signify the aggressively pursued partnerships with (PRIME-HRM) Maturity Level II. university’s commitment to strive to international universities to expand excellence in human resource avenues for advanced studies and The Civil Service Commission - management.