CHED urged: Review nursing program PAFP says quality of nursing graduates in the country is deteriorating

CEBU, Philippines - An official of the Philippine Academy of Family Physicians is urging the government through the Commission on Higher Education to look into the nursing curriculum of the different schools nationwide claiming that the quality of nursing graduates is dwindling.

Dr. Soraya Abubakar, PAFP president, said that the quality of nursing graduates is going down and there is now an oversupply of nursing graduates in the country.

“This is something that CHED should look into because the quality of our nursing graduates is going down,” Soraya said in a press conference yesterday.

Dr. Zorayda Leopando, professor of Family and Community Medicine of the University of the Philippines, said that the trend of doctors taking up nursing before is no longer the trend today.

“This maybe the trend few years ago but right now because of the difficulty of getting an item, doctors stay as doctors,” Leopando said.

Dr. Alejandro Pineda, PAFP immediate past president, said doctors who studied nursing and went abroad are not normally due to high salary but because of the offer of migration for the entire family.

PAFP hosted the 18th World Organization of Family Doctors in the Asia Pacific Region at the Waterfront Hotel in Cebu City.

The four-day event was attended by over 2,000 family medicine doctors all over the world.

The said organization was organized in 1972 with the objective to improve the quality of life of people of the world through fostering and maintaining high standards of care in general practice/family medicine.

PAFP on the other hand is an organization of family physicians with a strong advocacy for the health of Filipino families and communities and believes that by promoting health, shaping communities and protecting the environment, the quality of life of patients and families can improve. —(FREEMAN)