{"content":[{"text":"PART I","bbox":{"left":0.46146,"top":0.056887,"width":0.07709500000000002,"height":0.018604000000000002}},{"text":"THE UP VISION-MISSION \n (1972 BOR Resolution)","bbox":{"left":0.355842,"top":0.097205,"width":0.288297,"height":0.038762000000000005}},{"text":"“The University of the Philippines, as the nation’s leading institution devoted to higher \n education, research and community service, through the concerted application of \n sciences, technology and the behavioral sciences to the problems of society, serves as \n an effective instrument of national development, while maintaining its commitment to \n the arts, letters and humanities, as well as the pursuit of truth and the highest standards \n of academic excellence.”","bbox":{"left":0.0858,"top":0.157681,"width":0.8284199999999999,"height":0.11351800000000004}},{"text":"THE UP MANILA MISSION AND GOAL \n (1988 Reorganization)","bbox":{"left":0.284428,"top":0.29056,"width":0.432422,"height":0.03758700000000004}},{"text":"“The University of the Philippines Manila shall constantly strive to become an outstanding, \n dynamic, cohesive, and relevant institution of higher learning with the integration of the \n health sciences units and the College of Arts and Sciences. Thus, it shall provide the \n highest quality of advanced instruction, professional training, basic and applied research, \n and community service, and thereby produce outstanding scholars, practitioners, and \n leaders in the fields of health, the natural sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities.”","bbox":{"left":0.0858,"top":0.347509,"width":0.828783,"height":0.11351699999999998}},{"text":"PART II","bbox":{"left":0.456812,"top":0.480388,"width":0.08635499999999996,"height":0.01860400000000001}},{"text":"THE UP MANILA RETURN SERVICE AGREEMENT (RSA)","bbox":{"left":0.180788,"top":0.518354,"width":0.6384130000000001,"height":0.018603999999999954}},{"text":"Historical Background","bbox":{"left":0.0858,"top":0.556319,"width":0.23197900000000005,"height":0.018603999999999954}},{"text":"The Philippine Medical School was established by Commonwealth Act No. \n 1415 on 1 December 1905 to address the critical lack of physicians as raised by the \n local medical society. In 1915, the government expanded its health services which led to \n increased demands for medical graduates. A contract was signed by students for them to \n serve for 2 years in government in exchange for tuition fee waiver for 5 years of medical \n education. This provision was discontinued in 1920.","bbox":{"left":0.0858,"top":0.594285,"width":0.828431,"height":0.11351800000000001}},{"text":"Most of our health professions graduates, especially the medical and nursing \n graduates, have joined the exodus to the US, the Middle East and other countries. Thus, \n in 1976, the School of Health Sciences (SHS) in Tacloban, Leyte, administratively under \n UP Manila, was established with the mandate to serve the underserved Filipinos in rural \n and remote areas. Graduates of SHS serve 2 years for every year of education. They serve \n either as midwife, nurse or physician, preferably in the community which nominated \n them. After 33 years, about 90 % of SHS graduates are still serving the Philippines. Most \n of those who left have served the required period of return service. The return service \n agreement was based initially on verbal social contract but in 2008, SHS was the first \n component of UP Manila which asked students to sign a tripartite contract with the \n University and the local government units. \n 2","bbox":{"left":0.0858,"top":0.727164,"width":0.828431,"height":0.23784699999999992}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}