Section 6Sec./Art. 6

Minimum required courses. Students seeking admission to the medical course must have a bachelor of science or bachelor of arts degree or their equivalent and must have taken in four years the following subjects with their corresponding number of units:

Unit

English12

Latin3

Mathematics, including Accounting and Statistics9

Philosophy, including Psychology and Logic12

Zoology and Botany15

Physics8

Chemistry21

Library Science1

Humanities and Social Sciences12

Twelve units of Spanish shall be required pursuant to Republic Act Numbered Seven hundred nine; but commencing with the academic year nineteen hundred sixty to nineteen hundred sixty-one, twenty-four units of Spanish shall be required pursuant to Republic Act Numbered Eighteen hundred and eighty-one as cultural, social and nationalistic studies.

Provided, That the following students may be permitted to complete the aforesaid preparatory medical course in shorter periods as follows:

(a) Students whose general average is below eighty-five per cent but without any grade of failure or condition may be allowed to pursue and finish the course in three academic years and the intervening summer sessions; and

(b) Students whose general average is eighty-five per cent or over may be permitted to finish the course in three academic years by allowing them to take each semester the overload permitted to bright students under existing regulations of the Bureau of Private Schools.

Provided, That upon failure to maintain the general average of eighty-five per cent, students under (b) shall automatically revert to the category of students under (a) and those under (a), upon having any grade of failure or condition, shall automatically revert to the category of students required to pursue the preparatory course in four years mentioned above.

The medical course shall be at least five years, including not less than eleven rotating internship in an approved hospital, and shall consist of the following subjects:

Anatomy

Physiology

Biochemistry and Nutrition

Pharmacology

Microbiology

Parasitology

Medicine and Therapeutics

Genycology

Opthalmology, Otology, Rhinology and Laryngology

Pediatrics

Obstetrics

Surgery

Preventive Medicine and Public Health

Legal Medicine, including Medical