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Co-Curricular Life

Students with varying interests converge at the Ateneo School of Medicine and Public Health, with these interests finding their outlet in different student groups. For some, these organizations serve as a counterbalance to the stress of their academics. To others, these extracurricular pursuits complement their education.

Student Organizations

Health education is the focus of students in EsKWELA. Advocating preventive and promotive health care among preschool children, EsKWELA aims to form children, families, and communities that are responsible for their health.

Students who have a passion for dance join the Ateneo Med Dance Group. For them, the kinetic arts serve as an avenue for self-expression. More than that, however, dance can serve as a means to empower others and effect changes into health systems.

The Surgical Society caters to students who want tThe Surgical Society caters to students who want to further develop their surgical and clinical skills outside the regular academic setting. Medical missions in Filipino communities with limited access to health services serve as exposure for members.

Students who join Kythe A+ instill and strengthen hope among chronically ill pediatric patients, through play and family empowerment. Kythe A+ envisions a world where children still experience a colorful childhood despite the challenges—physical, social, and otherwise—that come with their health condition.

The Advocates for Consciousness and Social Involvement Society (ACSIS) leads the students in cultivating their advocacies. Activities of ACSIS range from raising awareness and engaging in discourse on socially relevant issues, to gearing students towards action.

Athletics

ASMPH students strive to exemplify “Mens sana in corpore sano”, a Latin phrase that means “a sound mind in a sound body”.

Through athletic teams, students can lezarn and develop their skills in a variety of sports: basketball, volleyball, football, badminton, lawn tennis, table tennis, swimming, track, and ultimate frisbee. The Student Council also holds activities that allow students to participate in other physical disciplines, such as martial arts and yoga.

Annually, the Athletics Council, an auxiliary committee of the Student Council, hosts the House Cup. Students—and, sometimes, faculty members—are assigned to one of four “houses” and participate in recreational games, requiring them to work as a team to win the eponymous award. The event has been traditionally called InflaMed, with the houses named after the four cardinal signs of inflammation—Rubor, Calor, Tumor, and Dolor.

The ASMPH also regularly participates in the yearly Palarong Medisina, organized by the Association of Philippine Medical Colleges (APMC). The ASMPH won the overall championship title in 2016, besting 13 other medical schools in the Philippines.

Winning entails a combination of talent and grit. On top of sleepless nights reviewing for exams, students engage in physical conditioning and continuous improvement in their sport. Weekly training sessions are usually held in the evening, after classes have ended.

Student Council

Overseeing these organizations and school activities is the ASMPH Student Council, or the ASMPH-SC, which is the official representative of the student body to the administration, faculty, and other schools and external institutions.

The top five positions in the ASMPH-SC are the President, the Externals Vice President, the Internals Vice President, the Chief Finance Officer, and the Secretary-General. The Executive Officers and Legislative Officers, who are elected at the start of the academic year, represent their batches.

Auxiliary committees include the ASMPH Organizational Council, Academics Council, Athletics Council, External Affairs Council, Public Health Council, the Secretary-General team, and the Finance team. These committees serve to champion excellence in academics, extracurricular activities, and nation building.

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Resilience Programs

The school’s culture of “No Atenean Left Behind” permeates in all aspects of our community life. Driven by one of our core values, cura personalis (care for the other), the ASMPH is committed to forming not just the mind but also the heart and soul, the entire person of each and every student, faculty and staff. As such, the school ensures that it offers various resiliency programs to help support the ASMPH Community.

ASMPH focuses on a wholistic mental health and wellness care approach where different offices, academic and non-academic programs help in providing care to the community. These are the ASMPH Health Services Office, the Leadership Formation Cluster and the Campus Ministry Office.

The Health Services Office provides primary health care and wellness programs to ASMPH students and employees. The Health Services team is made up of licensed medical professionals who are tasked to offer the following services: Primary Care Services (including Acute Care and Mental Health Services), Comprehensive Health Assessment, Immunization Service and Wellness and Health Promotion.

Student Support Services

The Office of Student Affairs facilitates non-academic, co-curricular student support services to provide a milieu conducive to academic growth and personal development. It is under the Office of the Associate Dean.

The functions of OSA are the following:

  • Works closely with the ASMPH Student Council and Student Organizations in the development and planning of social, cultural, sports and other co-curricular activities that are consistent with ASMPH policies. It oversees the conduct of student activities, assists in the facilitation of logistical needs and in the administration of the student activity fund.
  • Provides assistance, guidance and support in the conduct of student-led school activities such as the OrSem and the Blue Lights Coating Ceremonies
  • ollaborates with the Health Services Office, the Formation Cluster, as well as the Student Wellness Team in creating initiatives and programs that address student well-being and mental health.
  • Evaluates documented critical incidents involving violations in the Code of Conduct of the Student Handbook and assists in the administrative hearing processes of the Discipline Committee. It provides guidance and support to students with disciplinary infractions. It also monitors the implementation and compliance to disciplinary penalties.
  • Works with the Formation Cluster in the implementation of the CARE Protocol and in monitoring reported students at risks.
  • Facilitates Scholarship Application and provides logistical support to the Scholarship Committee. Provides assistance to scholars through the Scholars’ Society.
  • Supports ASMPH fund-raising activities for Scholarship and Financial Aid.
  • Collaborates with the faculty and coaches in crafting initiatives in career guidance and development.
  • Updates and revises the Student Handbook

The ASMPH Campus Ministry Office, as a unit under the APS Chaplaincy and Campus Ministry Offices, provides students and other members of the ASMPH community (administrators, faculty, professionals, staff, maintenance personnel, alumni, worshipping community, housekeeping personnel, and security personnel) with opportunities for spiritual nourishment. It is hoped that through its programs and services, members of the ASMPH community will be able to deepen their prayer life and so live out their spirituality in everyday life.

Services include:

  • Recollections and Retreats
  • Liturgical and Devotional Services (e. g. Masses, Holy Rosary)
  • Spiritual Accompaniment and Pastoral Counseling
  • Weekly Examen, Prayer and Spirituality Sessions
  • Offering of Mass Intentions and Prayer Requests
  • Online Social Media Outreach

The ASMPH Health Services Office has been established to lead the health services program of the school.

The HSO is responsible for the:

  • Provision of primary health-care services administered by licensed medical professionals:
  • Provision of adequate facilities for health care and updated health records of all students and employees;
  • Promotion of a healthy lifestyle such as, but not limited to, healthy diet, physical activities, and no smoking and drinking of alcoholic beverages and substance abuse, and to provide a healthy environment not only inside the campus but also outside the school premises;
  • Provision of policies that will enable the practice of healthy lifestyles.
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Don Eugenio Lopez Sr. Medical Complex
Ortigas Avenue, Brgy Ugong,
1604 Pasig City, Philippines