The FEU-NRMF did it again, and again!
Dr. Eleanor de Guzman dela Pena, a recent graduate topped
the February 2011 Philippine medical board examinations,
with a score of 86.33, among the 1230 examinees. Another
alumna, Dr. Noreen Manlapaz Dizon, got the 5th place on
the list of the top ten.
Last year, FEU-NRMF also bagged home the first place in
the February 2010 medical board examination, with Marie-Jo-Ann
B. Cabanting garnering a grade of 85.42. On August 6,
2008, another FEU-NRMF graduate, Marlon Diaz Garcia, topped
the medical board examination, with a rating of 88.75.
FEU Class ’61 made history when it made almost
a clean sweep in the medical board examination, garnering
eight out of the top ten spots in the national medical
board examination that year. Dr. Vicente Verzosa got the
first place with a score of 83.38. UST got the 4th and
8th places. This impressive feat by these FEU alumni has
never been equaled or broken to this day.
Class ’61 members are being honored as Golden Jubilarians
during the 32nd Annual Convention and Reunion of the FEU-DNR-SM
Alumni Foundation on June 15-18, 2011 at the Monte Carlo
Resort in Las Vegas.
The other FEU alumni who obtained first place on the
medical board examinations were: Raymond Razonable, 91.17
(August 1993);Virginia Magbogos, 92.58 (August 1991);
Bienvenido V. Yu, 90.92 (December 1986);Nelson T. Chao,
88 (June 1983); Esther C. Aoigan, 85.58 (December 1978);
Joseph D. Carpio, 86.46 (December 1975) ; Guat S. Sy,
Jr., 91.17 (June 1975); Victoria K. Sy, 87.63 (August
1958). Together with these topnotchers were more 200 FEU
alumni who were at the top ten of the national medical
board examinations since FEU graduated its first batch
in 1957.
Dr. Josephine C. Reyes, who passed away July
26, 2011, is shown above on June 18, 2011 at the
2nd Annual Reunion-Convention of the FEU-DNR School
of Medicine Alumni Foundation held in Las Vegas,
Nevada, congratulating a Class '86 Silver Jubilarian,
Sheillah C. Gentile, MD, a diplomate in Family
Medicine practicing in Schererville/Munster, Indiana,
one of the 29 members of the Silver celebrants.
Dr. Reyes also officiated the medal awards ceremonies
and bestowed the same honors to the 46 members
of the United Class of '61, the Golden jubilarians.
This event would be the last official act of Dr.
Reyes for the medical alumni in the United States.
