 Good morning, good afternoon, good evening to everyone and welcome to the 69th installment of the Stop COVID-19 webinar series brought to you by the University of the Philippines. Thank you for being part of our credible online community and to all those who have just discovered us for the very first time today, welcome po at maraming salamat po sa inyong panonon. As early as March 2021, March of this year, the Commission on Higher Education, or CHED, has announced the possibility of limited face-to-face classes by second semester of the academic year 2020-2021. In selected schools who have complied with the stringent retrofitting and sick guidelines of the Department of Health and the COVID-19 Interagency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases, or the IATF. However, with the COVID search na na experience mo natin, mga bandang March or April, this plan has been put on hold. And now with the opening of classes for this coming academic year, we are again looking at the possibility of limited face-to-face hands-on training and laboratory classes for our third year and our graduating students po. But with the current Delta variant, causing an increase in the number of cases, we are now I think at 20,000 na po na for the past few days and we experience our highest positivity rate at 29.1% yesterday. Many students as well as their parents, their faculty members are asking, ang limited face-to-face classes po ba, ligtas po ba ito? If you want to get the answers from credible sources, then please stay tuned and keep it right here. I'm Dr. Raymond Francis Sarmiento, Director of the National Telehealth Center, National Institutes of Health, University of Philippines Manila. Always a pleasure to be with all of you during our regular Friday lunch date and I always look forward to our Fridays as I get to share hosting duties with a mentor and my partner, our adjunct faculty at the UP Manila National Telehealth Center and also a really esteemed public health communications expert. And special envoy of the President for Global Health Initiatives, Dr. Susie Pineda Mercado. Dr. Susie? Hey Raymond, good afternoon. Kamusta po sa inyong lahat? Welcome to everyone who's watching wherever you are. Good morning, good afternoon. Raymond, we have so many people watching from all the different parts of the country and I can also see a lot of people watching from the different schools. So yung mga health professional schools and that will be mainly our topic today. We will be focusing on face to face, limited face to face learning particularly for the health professions. I know there are many challenges and constraints and we will talk about that but I think we are gathered because we also want to celebrate some of the good practices. We have three phenomenal superwomen who are opening their schools and you're going to hear from them just what they're doing so that we will have new health professionals. Raymond, can you imagine what will happen to us if we don't graduate the doctors, the nurses, the dentists or they graduate and they haven't interacted with a patient? So this is something that is so essential especially during a pandemic and so we thought this would be a good time to discuss it. Of course to our audience, the Q&A box is open for questions that you have for our speakers later and I think we're going to start as we always do with the point of view of this time I think TVUP is interviewing some of our students. So TVUP, let's listen to our students and what they think of limited face to face learning. Para po sa akin, napaka-importante po nung limited face to face school kasi para for someone na katulad ko na in the future magtatrabaho sa medical field, kailangan po namin nung essential skills and knowledge para po magawa ang trabako namin ng the future. Para sa akin, yung limited face to face classes kasi kami parang naayin siya sa situasyon natin sa lagay ng mga nangyari sa atin. Favorable po ako sa limited face to face school kasi ka po nagpo online class lang, parang limited lang yung nakakasalamuham mo yung family mo lang. So ang nararamdumald mo sa limited face to face class is actually hallow siya. Pwuna-wuna, lumalang lang yung pagiging excited ko kasi si mula na nagpandemic, wala talaga kami ang expo versus school never kaming gumalik sa school para ma-develop yung mga skills namin. So kahit pa pa, nang gusto kong i-take yung opportunity na i-grab yung face to face para mas matuto pa and mas mahun pa yung skills namin as clerk and as teacher doctors. Yung health precautions na ginagawas namin, ano lang po kami bubble, so meron po kami 5 batches a month, every week ibang batch yung pumapasok sa school, so hindi kami nagkikita. Before papasok po, nagpinapatig po kami ng swab test, tapos kung negative po meron na po kami clearance para makapasok sa limited face to face. Mas paburo sa aking yung face to face kasi may mga bagay na hindi ka matuturus online kasi pag online limited yung time ng teacher makitpag-interact sa students. Kailangan dapat meron pa rin health and safety protocols, yun pa rin po yung concept of that and dapat may malinaw na rules and regulations po tayo kung i-implement ito. Kung magtutulit-tulit yung gantong setup, aminin ko na ako personally hindi ako magiging sobrang ready. Actually, tratano ko rin ang mga friends ko kapag nag-usap kami na parang lahat kami na pressure kasi lahat kami hindi rin ready skills-wise kasi sobrang dami namin na miss-out like medical and surgical procedures na dapat expose na kami by now and yun ding parang interaction with patients talaga na sobrang importante ko parang dapat kami mag-build ng rapport. Kasi pa po ako ready yung magtrabaho upon graduation kasi di po enough yun para mahasay yung kailangan namin skills para sa trabaho na gagawin namin. Thank you hindi pa. Iba kasi yung ane. Iba yung parang pag-face to face yung class, parang may experience ka nakagad sa trabaho. Gusto kong kumapet dun sa hope. Gusto kong makaroan ng hope na magiging improve pa talaga. Hindi na tayo kasi babalik doon sa dati, sa tingin ko po. Malayo tayo doon sa dati natin kinagisnan. Let's embrace the new normal like limited face to face. Sana ganun din yung gawin ng government na pagtunan din ang pansin yung health and education like the first world crisis. Okay, thank you so much TVUP. Always good to know kung ano po yung mga salobin ng ating mga persons on the street and in this case, our students po. A lot of them have expressed their willingness and really their interest to participate in limited face to face and will be really working towards how to move towards that setup and what are the safety measures and safeguards that the schools have prepared in place given that there are universities and colleges already that are allowing limited face to face. For those who... I want to remember before we go into the details of the webinar. Actually, I just want to express it. I'm very grateful and we have a couple of students who are with us today. I think many are watching na they are still enrolling in medicine, in nursing, in dentistry despite all of this. And I'm sure, merami akong narinig na mga magulang na sinasabi na na, huwag na yan ang ipasok nyo, pero tulip pa rin sila. So I just wanted to say that this is a very bright moment for us that we still have so many young people who want to go into the health professions. So, talagang matibay e, lalaban talaga sila Raymond, di ba parang papasok talaga sila. Very inspiring to hear na talagang may ganun po talaga. They want to be able to gather the skills and the knowledge po talaga to make them prepared. Not just because they were able to pass the boards or whatever, but more so when they're doing it in the real world po. Okay, so we are now numbering at a little less than 1400 participants. We know that a lot of you are joining us in YouTube and the Facebook pages. But we want to remind you that our webinar will be able to accommodate up to 3000 participants. So please join us. Please let your friends, family, your colleagues know how you'd be able to fully experience this interactive program. If they're able to log in to Zoom. So if you're joining us via YouTube or Facebook, I think we'll be sharing po our Mentimeter later on. Pero it's not as the same as mga Zoom poll po natin po. We just wanted to extend that for those who are unable to join via the Zoom po. For those who are joining us for the very first time ang ating setup po talaga, we will have discussions from our esteem panel of experts, followed by reactions from our students. I think there are interns now from different backgrounds and then finally our Q&A. At ang pinakihintay po ng lahat, lalala po ang mga hindi po na sa Zoom ay ang ating menti code. If you go to www.menti.com and use the code 7019-1604. That's 7019-1604. You'd be able to participate in our Zoom poll and our quizzes. So yun po. Anything to add, Dr. Suzie? I think we're good. We're ready to go. Before we start po, we just wanted to show TV UP that our certificates, as mentioned, will only be sent out to those who have spent at least 50% of the time sa ating webinar. We are very grateful for those who have been notifying us na hindi pa po sila naka-receive ng kalalang certificate for webinar 63 or 57 mga galong po. Or those who are asking for a change in name, but please be very, very careful. What you enter po sa ating registration link is what will be reflected sa ating certificates po. So please let us know again at stopcovidets.up.edu.ph if you have not received and you feel that you're eligible to receive our certificate. So to introduce our opening remark speaker, I'll turn the floor over to Dr. Suzie. Thank you very much, Raymond. So today we said we were going to talk about limited face-to-face learning and we are focusing on the education of health professionals, doctors, nurses, medical technologists, pharmacists, allied medical professions, dentists, et cetera. And we have with us, we are very proud to have with us, very honored to have with us Executive Director for of the Commission on Higher Education, Attorney Cinderella Filipina S. Benitez Haro, who will be talking to us, giving us our opening remarks. Attorney Cindy, welcome to the webinar. Lady Cindy, you're on mute. Hi, good afternoon. Good afternoon po to our host. And I am very happy to be part of this webinar. Okay, go ahead. Attorney Cindy, go ahead with your presentation. So to our team speakers, to all our officials, representatives, participants, staff and students from our Higher Education Institutions present in this webinar, as well as our viewers in the TV, UP website and Facebook Live today. Good afternoon. More than a year ago, since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic, we are still dealing with the changes in our regular routines, our work, and especially for our young learners, how formal education is received. We then need to explore innovative learning modalities that will facilitate the migration from traditional pedagogical approaches to more flexible learning teaching and when learning modalities shed in collaboration with our Higher Education Institutions student organizations and government agencies, among others, had created following pandemic response-related programs, policies and projects, such as our CMO number four, otherwise known as the Guidelines on the Implementation of Flexible Learning, FieldShed Connect, a website for free access to instructional learning materials, Shed, Hi, Ed, Baya, Nihan, a series of free virtual trainings on flexible learning to capacitate faculty members amidst the COVID-19 pandemic and Shed Smart Compos Development Project, grants for our state universities and colleges to improve implementation of flexible learning, such as upgrading of internet connectivity, campus area network, learning management system, learner information system, smart classroom, computer center for students, and or multi-media center for faculty. However, although flexible learning modality, which if I may emphasize offline, online and blended, is dimmed the safest pedagogical approach during a pandemic and despite the efforts of the commission to equip our higher education institutions for flexible learning, there are courses that would still require face-to-face delivery in order to achieve key learning outcomes and ensure readiness and competitiveness of graduates in the world of work. There are courses that require actual live demonstration of professors, use of sophisticated equipment, handling of chemicals, exposure to industry and activities that require face-to-face interaction. Thus, Shed DOH GMC No. 2021-01, otherwise known as the guidelines on the gradual reopening of campuses of higher education institutions for limited face-to-face classes during the COVID-19 pandemic was issued. This issue serves as a guide for HEIs intending to hold limited face-to-face classes during the COVID-19 pandemic and are willing to assume the responsibilities for the reopening of their campuses based on their capability to comply with health and safety protocols to retrofit their facilities and to get the support of their stakeholders. A voluntary, cautious and gradual approach to reopening campuses of HEIs shall be taken until most of the regions in the country classify as low-risk areas with COVID-19 and until vaccines are distributed or made available to Filipino tertiary students. The subjects and courses allowed for face-to-face delivery are delimited to specialized laboratory courses, quickship, internship, and or practicum to ensure safety of the whole school community. HEIs, which intend to conduct limited face-to-face classes, must demonstrate the following. They should do complete self-assessment checklist at the necessary open campus for limited face-to-face classes. They should adhere to DOH minimum public health standards as provided in detail in DOH AO No. 2020-015, establish a crisis management committee, engage with gay stakeholders in the community, LGU, regional IATF, regional DOH, faculty, non-teaching staff, parents, and students, follow a cyclical student-shifting model and or occupancy capacity, comply with the standards of retrofitted facilities as provided in Annex C of our JMC, and ensure that students, faculty, and staff follow the basic minimum health requirements such as frequent handwashing, wearing a face mask and face shield, and practice of social distancing. With these considerations in mind, the identified priority programs for limited face-to-face classes in medical and allied health programs initially. As part of the country's health care system, the students attending limited face-to-face classes for these programs provide added workforce and are eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine as part of the A1 priority group. We must balance the resumption of limited face-to-face classes and the need to mitigate the risk associated with COVID-19. As of August 31, 2021, Michelle, through its regional offices, has approved 130 higher education institutions for limited face-to-face classes. This covers initially five programs, medicine, medical, technology, physical, therapy, nursing, midwifery, and then we expanded it to other programs. After seven months of implementation of limited face-to-face classes, there are 16,840 students attending limited face-to-face classes and only 57 students tested positive for COVID-19. All cases based on our records were asymptomatic and mild. There were no severe and critical cases demonstrating that when our HCI's adhere to the health and safety protocols, have the capability and commitment to put in place measures to mitigate the spread of the virus and protect our students, faculty, and staff from infection, limited face-to-face classes can be a safe and viable option for learning. We in the commission command all the HCI's authorized to offer limited face-to-face classes. Gen together with the OH and IATF is actively working on expanding the programs for limited face-to-face classes and securing the approval from the office of the president. Indeed, we now face a shift, a transition, and a transformation of the teaching and learning process in Philippine higher education. Given the programs and policies, the cooperation of our stakeholders and the data on COVID-19 monitoring and evaluation, the answer to the question limited face-to-face school ligtas ba is clear. Limited face-to-face classes can be a success if implemented properly. Thank you for listening and may we all stay safe and continue to move forward in the new normal of higher education. Thank you. Thank you very much. That's attorney Cinderella Filipina Minitas Haro from the commission on higher education for sharing that information with us and opening the webinar. We would like you to join us later in our panel discussion. Over to you, Raymond. Thank you. Idi Cindy. Marami salamat po. Nice to see you outside of the meetings po. Thank you also, Dr. Suzy. We now go on to our fun quiz. TV UP may we have it on the screen po. Okay. Can we have the mentee also on the screen just so those who are joining us via YouTube and Facebook can see it. We are seeing answers slowly trickling in po, no? At least for those who are in the Zoom. Okay, here we go. So for those who are nahulip po, no? If you go to www.mentee.com and enter the code 70191604 that's 70191604 you'd be able to participate in our two question poll. The first question is face-to-face classes. Are they necessary for training of health workers? Medyo maday lang po. It's a yes or no question. And then our second question what are the important concerns for COVID-19 infection in limited face-to-face school? Option A, public transport option B, dormitories option C, hanging out with friends option B, eating in groups and option E, all of the above. So please key in your answers po, no? We will not be closing the poll anytime soon. We are seeing that less than 1,000 are in the Zoom poll po, no? And we hope that a lot of those who are in the Mentimeter are also able to participate. Okay, so we'll just leave that open as we move on to our main discussion po. Over to you Dr. Suzie. Okay, thank you very much Raymond and thank you everyone for participating in the fun quiz. We always like to see what you're thinking. And Raymond, gumaganda yung Mentimeter natin may mga, ano pa, may mga cartways po sila. So we go to the main part which is we have three outstanding presenters who are going to talk to us about what they're doing to prepare for safe, limited face-to-face education for our doctors, nurses, midwives, dentists, pharmacists and so on. And of course we're going to start with somebody who you know very well. She is one of the moving spirits and the foundation for the stop COVID deaths. Always with us when we do our discussions with the speakers and always ready to do an excellent summary at the end of every webinar. I don't know how she does it but she does it really well. We'd like to welcome Chancellor of the University of the Philippines of Manila. Chancellor Dr. Menchit Carmen Sita Padilia. Menchit. Hello Susie. Hello Raymond. Thank you. Thank you for inviting me as a panelist this time. A panelist ka, iba naman ang role mo ngayon and I understand Menchit. We're going to talk about five different colleges. Is that correct? Yes. Yes, but I I'll just give the highlights of the five colleges. Okay, sige. Take it away Menchit. What are you doing? Thank you. Hold on. I cannot move it. Okay. Okay. It's good. It's good. Thank you pa. Okay, so thank you. Thank you for inviting me to be a panelist in this session on limited face-to-face school. Let me start by introducing UP2U. We've been talking about UP all the time but UP actually consists eight constituent universities across the country and there are 21 campuses across the country too and we have more than 54,000 students and UP Manila is the Health Sciences Center of the University of the Philippines system. You can see in the right side that under UP Manila are actually we have degree granting units and we have non-degree granting units and for the degree granting units we have a list and everything in red is actually practically a frontliner and you can see that among the non-degree granting units of UP Manila will be our PGH and the National Institutes of Health. So let me talk about limited face-to-face now. I really am looking at my degree granting units now and everything in red actually needs a certification from CHED to be allowed to do the limited face-to-face. Now, when you talk about UP Manila there are several levels of safety we're talking about. We're talking about safety to the health workers first safety to the patients and the general public. And then safety to the non-PGH and non-NIH employees and that will mean the faculty, the students and the staff we're practically in one compound. So from from Pedra Hill to Padra Fawra that's UP Manila. So every time there is something that's happening in PGH we must be aware because we may be affected. Now I'd like to show this algorithm because one thing I've learned actually in the past almost two years now is that having a visual algorithm for our people on what to do is very crucial. So if I can just walk you through this algorithm. So here is a poster that we actually have in the internet and distributed. There's a question what do you what to do if you think you have a COVID-19 and you can see there's a question whether you have symptoms or high-risk and there's already an advice, isolate. The third is to report report your symptoms to BESO. Let me introduce the best. BESO BESO is actually an app developed by Raymond, our host. We're in through the cell phone or the computer you're able to actually list down your symptoms and what will happen now is that it's going to go to a supervisor level as to whether what kind of symptoms you have. So the BESO has been very useful for us here in UP Manila and then eventually the advice is to contact a focal person and next slide the focal person and the last will be to contact actually the University Health Service or our hotline number. So having a visual algorithm actually is very helpful for the general population because they know what to do, they don't have to look for it. Just save this sheet of paper. Now I show this list, this table actually it's a table with names but basically what we've done is that we do have an overall nurse coordinator for COVID concerns. I'm not talking about PGH I'm talking about the rest of the UP Manila community and we note that every college has admin staff faculty and students so we actually put in a person in charge which means if you have the symptoms then you've got you have a person to talk to and every day the Chancellor and the Vice Chancellor for Administration actually we are informed if there is a positive case and if I have a dean who is symptomatic I'm also may answer the best. So this system has been very useful for us in Administration and I felt that the anxiety has actually toned down. Now moving on now to the guidelines if you notice this is dated August 2020 we really wanted to open already in August 2020 we've been preparing for this but as you can see here now if you look at my list on the left so far we have five who have given have been given approval College of Pharmacy and SHS Palo Palolete are now in the line of being hopefully accredited very soon if I may just mention that the School of Health of Health Sciences has four campuses one in Palolete Coronadal Kotobato South Kotobato Baler aurora and we just open tarlak tarlak so let's take a look na on what has happened of course just like anybody else we had to meet with the Mayor and the LGU approval of course we had to go through a process of being visited by a team from Chad and here we received our award on July 14 of this year we were quite excited about it because for a year we've been waiting for this time that we be allowed to start the limited face to face now so these are the colleges have been allowed to to offer the face to face College of Medicine College of Nursing College of Dentistry College of Public Health and College of Medical so each of these colleges were visited by a team from Chad and a team of experts from different universities now instead of presenting every college I've actually grouped them because there are some general policies and guidelines that's actually shared by all and as you can see that as early as July of 2021 it has been finalized and vetted by administration of the system and at the same time it has been revised many times to make sure that it is appropriate for all of the colleges so of course number one is still the vaccination there's a very very big push and I just cited a few that have been significant to the success of the vaccination College of Medicine right now has about 99% vaccinated College of Allied Medical Professions has about 100% and then for the College of Nursing for incoming third year for dentistry about 95% so in other words when you say vaccination now we have many partners anywhere from PGH LGUs as a matter of fact Medicine partner with Santa Ana Hospital to bring in their interns and medical students in very recently we had the Bakunabas from the Philippine Red Cross so let me just walk you a few things that have been done by all of the colleges I will only show you a few pictures so we had to actually insult a lot of the electric fans and we had to put all the energy here but you know whereas in the past you know you didn't really matter where you passed but we've got all of these arrows we've got lines for exit and the entrance and then in every in every college now you will have this temperature measurement as well as the alcohol at the beginning actually in front of every room you also have this every room so you cannot just enter a room the precautionary measures so we've been able to we started looking at the spaces and then over there no people yet but the thing is you can see here that this is a cafeteria that's supposed to be open anytime now and then we also have outdoor eating spaces that we've started to identify again with the precautions of spacing and physical distance and so on we do have the isolation room so this is so we have for four students with the capacity at the college of nursing and two at the college of public health to service all the students or staff or faculty who may actually turn out to be symptomatic during a class so let's just walk through some of the colleges and see how you know how they look like so this is a college of allied medical professions for physical therapy occupational therapy and speech therapy and as you can see at the beginning they had a lot of they practiced and a lot of simulated patients actually but they actually started already to face to face and you can see the distancing even with the parent and the buyer that have been put in place so whereas in the past this would be full of students and patients now they have been scheduled depending on how many will be allowed in the room despite the fact that we have many students and many patients now they have to line up because they have to follow the schedule of the you know the cycle the cycle the cyclical ship and as you can see here again they actually use the app of best because every student must know must know if she is symptomatic must not go to the office and if ever she is symptomatic then the teacher will actually know and then they know how to start the tracing in that particular class going to dentistry which I was sharing with the group that's probably my most expensive college we just for the retrofitting of the classes and I'm not even finished yet we have spent 19 million just for the HVAC of the clinical rooms you can see here that there are now barriers here in this laboratory the students have come in here when they were actual patients they were using actually the the mannequins here as you can see here now it's the same whereas before this was next to each other now you've got the physical barrier and there are a lot of visuals and the other thing is that we've got a lot of mobile acrylic barriers every classroom actually has S2 and to make sure that you know we provide additional protection now this is the memorandum that we're following specifically for dentistry requiring that the students the faculty and staff would have the tests done 3-5 days prior to the start of classes now going to nursing is same as the college of allied medical professions they do the 4 days face-to-face and the 10 days of quarantine the second thing is that we have smaller classes now very limited and timed and with the regular self-monitor reporting even during at the time of they have the class one thing that's interesting is that after every simulation activity they have a debriefing so well not face-to-face but still virtual but the important happening to the faculty also and to the students now for medicine now of the many activities of medicine I will only highlight two actually and that will be for anatomy and internship for every level there are specific set of activities but let me start with anatomy so for anatomy whereas in the past we have a room full of students and the cadavers lined up you can see here that now they are also scheduled they already had their face-to-face perception for medicine and you can see that the dean Dean Charlotte Chong actually at the beginning of the pandemic bought virtual digital dissection stations so you know they had to think fast because we could not stop producing the doctors and this became very handy at the beginning of the pandemic so life went on at the college of medicine moving on to internship they started the skills workshop on open air they following all the protocols before they went to the clinic but right now we already have interns rotating in PGH and as a matter of fact if I just list some of the things all the interns are actually vaccinated with one person people give a waiver there are clinical rotations they participate already in non-COVID the areas again they use the app to make sure that they are they don't have the symptoms they have the symptoms they have to consult and they have to follow the protocols and as you can see that if ever they become positive that administration takes care of helping them I show this picture of Dean Chong Dean of the College of Medicine actually showing her teaching an intern during the rotation at ORL so you know this is what the students are missing the real opportunity to be able to see the patients not only in the wards but also in the operating room now in the last for the college of public health in addition to all the things that I mentioned the college of public health was actually designated by CHED to establish the public health experts group and as a matter of fact they assist other state universities and colleges on the proper guidelines and in preparing them for the face to face so they actually have been training evaluators nationwide and they also participate in visiting the schools so in summary there are things that are common to all of the colleges and there are things that are peculiar to a particular college so what's coming up while college of pharmacy is about to open they're ready and we've just made an appeal and the school for health sciences is being visited by CHED right now and the south Coronadal and Balair have actually applied already for their possible accreditation does this mean that we're ready we do have challenges so let me mention some of the challenges major challenges because I have a lot of minor challenges first challenge is the safety during travel to the campus whether you like it or not we don't have enough beds for them we don't have we cannot accommodate we cannot do a bubble for them so even if I keep the campus safe then I still have the problem of their safety coming to school and the third bullet is something that we really have to consider once we start the face to face we have to establish the protocol we know that when a patient becomes positive we have an isolation room but what about the other students who are exposed so we're just now finalizing the protocol because we do have a guideline now we're in a student the whole class is to be managed not just the student who turned out to be positive so let me answer the question a ligtas na ba sa UP Manila now people say that because we have PGH then we should have the fear but to be honest because PGH is within the campus they have actually come up a lot of guidelines that we have been able to actually use in the setting the academic setting and since everybody is careful then now we're no longer scared that we're actually within the same campus breathing the same ear as the Philippine General Hospital so with that I want to thank again TV UP for considering the face to face limited face to face as one of its topics today Maraming salamat Okay, thank you so much Chancellor Padilla really just explanation po on how UP Manila has been really preparing for this day when we will be having the limited face to face school we wait for you mam later on during the Q&A discussion po Thank you For our next presenter she is well not really someone who's unfamiliar to a lot of folks who are in the chat box po because we are seeing a lot of shout outs sa school na ito it's yun po ang ating next presenter she is the president of the Our Lady of Fatima University we saw a lot of students po particularly from the nursing department at college po so we hope a lot of the nursing students are really tuned in please welcome Dr. Carol Lynn Marian Enriquez Dr. Carol afternoon Raymond and thank you for your introduction and thank you to my dear students for attending the webinar yes mam you see it very encouraging that we all want to find out how things are being done by the other schools as well and also by your university so thank you Raymond and mam Susie for the invitation so allow me to share my slide if I may go ahead Dr. Carol go ahead mam can you see it yes mam yes go ahead it's now on presenter view na po go ahead mam thank you let me start of first with an explanation of how we're doing things in our legal Fatima University so my presentation will be from the concept from the theories all the way up to the actual face-to-face experience of our students so we call our our concept hands-on at Fatima so when we have our hands-on at Fatima the challenge of the pandemic in nursing education was partially answered by the internet and flexible learning paradigm so in order to ensure the full development of the required basic skills and the competencies for our nursing students our legal Fatima University designed the hands-on program which was incorporated in the learning continuity or the catch-up plan of the college of nursing this limited face-to-face activity as a combination of both online activities and hands-on clinical rotations completed within the prescribed RLE hours so let me walk you through what we have been doing here so what is the hands-on concept hands-on actually is an acronym so it means high fidelity simulation using adaptive technology with the networks that is dedicated to structured learning while optimizing your nursing competencies it is a coined acronym which represents the combination of blended technology and hands-on patient care that enhances the cognitive the psychomotor and effective domains of a beginning nurse professional so it puts premium on the evaluation of the desired competencies of the learning outcomes that is required for a nursing student so we make sure that we tie up everything from the concept to the actual hands-on experience given the situation that we are in so let me walk you through our high fidelity simulations high fidelity simulation is a healthcare method that involves the use of sophisticated life-like mannequins in realistic patient maneuvers so these mannequins closely mimic human anatomy and these are designated these are called high fidelity mannequins so what do we have at Arde de Fatima University for our face-to-face classes we have our virtual laboratories in the picture that you're seeing now we name our mannequins with their proper name so this guy is called Hank Hank is able to be a life-like patient he can talk, he can communicate with you, we use our computers that are connected to the mannequins so that if we present the faces and if there's a case that we want delivered we can do it on Hank so you could auscultate him you could do a lot of things on Hank aside from Hank we also have other mannequins in our virtual laboratories we have a birthing mother you can actually do deliveries and maneuvers she could react in pain you could also do maneuvers especially for the nursing of mothers and their children and they're the baby as for the baby you could also get the upgrade scores you could do a lot of suctionings so basically there's really a lot of simulations going on in the lower most right picture we have our hall hall is our model that will simulate the different lung and heart sounds so we have over I think 100 lung and heart lung sounds that people, our students could auscultate so they know the differences between the different heart and lung sounds at the same time also these are all connected to computers so you could figure out you could have the cases and then the teacher will walk you through each in the different cases so as you go through each case you're supposed to diagnose and you're supposed to find out what are the treatments for each case so we go now to the face-to-face scenario that we're doing in our later five-day university so on the picture on the upper left you could see that we have a very small batch of so we have batches of 10 and inside each classrooms are directional signs on how they can enter and how they could exit at the same time also when once they go to the simulation labs all the barricades all the acrylic boards are there and we make sure that all our students are properly attired for their sessions for the PPEAs as well as for the return demos so adaptive technology refers to special versions of already existing technologies or tools that can enhance the different ways of interacting with technology so basically adaptive technology that we have in Fatima is one of the concepts so we subscribe to certain absent software to help deliver the demonstrations and the different pathways and including the maneuvers that the student has to undergo so that they know it before they learn or before they migrate into a face-to-face session so we have the learning pathways here we have different conditions that the students must undergo so that when they start entering the actual demonstration they know the different pathways already aside from the learning path management we also have what we call our nursing clerkship this is done online initially so that again it simulates and it gives you the foundations for the proper scenario once you're able to go for your face-to-face from classes and then these are the tools really that will help enhance and you or your skills once you're able to go to our classes next we go to our structured learning experiences so the structured learning experiences is basically what ties the concept together with the high fidelity mannequins that we are using so these are the experiential the in-depth learning experiences that are designed for the students so that the opportunity to explore the career pathways is more clearer so you have formal learning programs or courses that are designed using instructional methodologies and guided by your curriculum so we make sure that we incorporate certain selected and focused activities that will be part of your curriculum for your face-to-face classes and make sure that the students are able to demonstrate and apply the high level of academic attainment that you'll be required for all of them so first before we put everything together we had to define what we want to teach our nursing students what is important how do we teach them then what are the goals for the learning objectives that we must do for our students and then we need to design the course so that we make sure that when we do for the moment everything is really focused and targeted we identify the resources since we know that there are a lot of things needed other than your LMS your learning management system we needed to subscribe to other learning apps to make sure that the learning experience of our nursing students will be complete and after that we decided to determine what is appropriate technology what are the mannequins what are the other support systems that we need to put in place so that we can really deliver a meaningful our LE experiences for our nurses so the creation of the team is part of the plan and then we have to communicate all our plans to our students all of these guidelines and the protocols that are shared and the DOH and their LGUs are set in place so we always make sure that the face-to-face learning experience of a Fatima student is structured in such a way that the delivery of learning is focused, concise and safe so when our students start off with their remote learning in order that they can tackle concepts now we make sure that we utilize all the learning management systems for our theories and concepts then we have their modules and we have already our curated videos as well as the other instructional materials that we have indexed and targeted over a period of a year so we also make sure that other than subscribing to different softwares our faculty members are trained for that as well as the students who will need to make sure that they understand how these softwares operate so it's also crucial that communication between your faculty the plans of the institution and the students and the parents are well known to our stakeholders especially the parents and the students the first one is a general orientation for the concepts that you have to learn for the semester after which you have a batch orientation and then you have your specific requirements for each activity that you have to undergo like what what we always do we make sure that during an orientation everything is covered what do the students need they need to have their field health everyone is required to have a field health a vaccination or the necessary vaccinations that they could get should have been inoculated on them and then with regards to COVID vaccines we work with our LGUs as well as we encourage our students strongly so that they would be vaccinated for our last school year we were able to vaccinate almost everyone since students now we are working for the batch for school year 2021 2022 and we always have our recommendation methods for our LGUs so that our students could be accommodated as part of A1 medical frontliners for their vaccines at the same time also we make sure that our faculty members are also adequately vaccinated on top of that we also require our students to have their RTPC our test 3 to 4 days prior to their batch rotation so when we say batch rotations most of our students our students are divided into small groups of perhaps 10 or so to make sure that we are able to follow the cyclical model for the shifts in order that we can mitigate the exposures of our students from one group to another and when we have our batches that's a group of 10 students per small group they only report to Fatima for their face-to-face last ones for half a day I think it's from 8 o'clock to 12 o'clock and then after which we do disinfection of our lab especially our virtual labs and then the next batch comes in at around 1.30 for their turn at the simulation laboratories we're very strict with making sure that other students follow the protocols even our non-academic staff our safety marshals are always on board they're able to direct the students where to go, which group which room to use so that there's no interaction among groups of students if it's not their particular batch together with that we have all our safety barriers and at the same time we make sure that all the safety precautions and the health protocols are in place so I'm showing you pictures of how the earlier batches of students are able to do their return demonstration so as you can see it's very highly personalized if there's one thing I can say about education has been very personalized and individualized because it comes in smaller groups so we advise our students that once it's your turn to go for your face-to-face rotation make the most out of it because you have your teacher's attention exclusively for you in your small group whereas before you would be a bigger group but this time it's really a very very small group so always the objective of our radial fatima university and we have done this in our five or six campuses is to make sure that when we have face-to-face classes all our students are safe and that they believe in the system how do we make our students feel safe aside from the other requirements that we have to follow the double mask we need to have our thermal scans we have to have our alcohols in our classrooms we also have our health and wellness teams our health and wellness teams make sure that the students' welfare and their health are strictly monitored so it has come to a point that if anything happens to a student immediately our health and wellness teams are on board and they're able to direct what happens next and where do they go, what happens to their isolation who gets in touch with them so the policies are in place the procedures are in place we're just hoping that when the situation again is safer our students can safely come back to our campuses we are indeed really grounded by the reality of times that to make sure that face-to-face can happen safely all the safety protocols have to be followed but at the same time we're hopeful that by following the safety protocols we will be able to bring back most of our students for the requisite and the much needed hands-on experience that we hope that our students in our health programs, in medicine, in nursing medtech, pharmacy and also dentistry will be able to experience so with that my thanks to the team from TV UP for the opportunity to do things at Fatima so I hope that in the near future maybe when the numbers go down we can all go back to our campuses safely so thank you and back to you Dr. Raymond Thank you very much that's Carol Enriquez from Arledio Fatima University and binabati natin lahatin mga taga Arledio Fatima University Carol, dami nila dito but I'd like to congratulate you I have a chance to visit the Valenzuela campus when was this Carol, two years ago two or three years ago about two years ago and even at that time Arledio Fatima University School of Nursing already had this mannequins, simulation and all of that so I really think that using technology and learning and we said earlier we're here to celebrate some of the innovations we know that it's challenging pero sabi nga natin lahat ng talino ng Pilipino kailangan natin para sa pandemiya and here you can see our educators really really coming up to the plate in terms of providing our young students with an opportunity to learn and it's very inspiring I think your students are all on the chat box dami na Raymond dami kining from all over the country na mga Arledio Fatima University so congratulations Carol and we look forward to listening to you at our panel discussion okay, so our next speaker so sabi natin we have three powerhouse women who are really revolutionizing the education of health professionals we have none other than the president and chief academic officer of Centro Scholar University Dr. Maria Cristina Damasjo Padurina welcome ma'am, welcome to the webinar thank you good afternoon to everyone okay go ahead okay let me share my screen right away yes go ahead first of all of course I'd like to thank the University of the Philippines for this stop COVID that's webinar series and thank you for the invitation to share the CEU experience when the pandemic struck the Philippines and of course the world the CEU immediately made a resolution that in CEU continuing education and engagement in the university and the education of course refers to our students engagement refers to both students and our faculty and staff and so we really tried to do our best that this would happen we were very concerned with our dentistry students because many of them more than 200 of them were not able to graduate in the school year 2019-2020 because of the pandemic and we really worked very hard so that these empty classrooms would become something like this and that is what that story is the one that I would like to share with everyone so we were already told earlier about this guidelines or joint memorandum circular issued by the commission on higher education in the department of health so I won't go into that dentistry was not there among the list at first but it was added later on and well the first thing in that circular was that we can only do face to face when the community is under gcq or modified gcq but not under ecq so right now we are not doing any face to face I'll discuss some of the requirements that are part of that memorandum circular and the first of all is the crisis management committee and the chat was very specific that has to be headed by the president himself so I had to be one just like my other co-presidents who presented earlier and of course we had our retrofitted facilities which we had to modify and update especially with the developments about how COVID-19 is transmitted so with our classrooms we of course mark our dental chairs every other seats or chairs would only be occupied we had established or built an isolation room we retrofitted also our restroom so that we have touch free faucets we also fixed our student waiting area so that students can occupy these places and have the requisite distancing we also had areas where students would be putting on and removing their PPEs so and then was very important that we consult with our stakeholders students, parents, faculty and staff and the first of all was the consultation with our local government unit and we have here of course the approval of the mayor of the city of Manila to hold limited face-to-face classes we also had several maybe not several many consultations first of all with our faculty because they are the ones who will be the frontliners there in our classrooms but we had many consultations with parents and students and there was a lot of hesitancy at first but we were able to gradually encourage them with the development and the coming of vaccine to the vaccines to the Philippines that more and more agreed to come for the face-to-face classes after all the after all the consultations we were supposed to make a list of the subjects and describe the cyclical student shifting model that we would be using and the number of students per shifting cycle so the fourth and cycle that we adapted was four days in campus and during that time the students should be able to finish all of the clinical requirements but these were all under the no-patient policy these students had already experience with patients before the pandemic struck and so they were just not able to complete some of the clinical requirements so during these four days that they would be on campus they will have to complete all the clinical requirements that they have not been able to complete and after the 10 days in campus then they have 10 days off campus under quarantine and at this time they will continue to work with virtual clinical procedures and supervise the continuing supervision by the clinical instructors all of this done online and they are also asked clinicians and clinical instructors alike to monitor for signs and symptoms of COVID-19 during the 10 days of quarantine sorry where was I the health and safety protocols sorry the health and safety protocols the testing yes faculty and technicians security and janitorial staff are required to have negative RTPCR tests 3-5 days prior to the start of face-to-face classes and negative antigen test result every week thereafter if they continue to come to teach and to be the support staff students however were also required to have a negative RTPCR test result 3-5 days prior to initial entry and on terms of vaccination all our faculty, technicians security and janitorial staff were vaccinated and the students were all given certificates of participation in F-to-F classes so that they can show this to the LGUs so that they may be prioritized for vaccination and 74% of our students who came for the face-to-face classes were all vaccinated what else insurance our faculty, technicians security and janitorial staff had their own insurance but we also have hospitalization subsidy from CEU and the part of the students the students according to the joint memorandum circular should have fill health or equivalent medical insurance with coverage for medical expenses related to COVID-19 so these are just a few the safety protocols that were established there were many others in terms of transportation the faculty and the support staff had to have their own vehicle or they can share with others or they can ride a bike or motorbike motorcycle or walk to work the students also the same thing their own private transportation or walk going to campus otherwise if they cannot do that they have to stay in the nearby dormitory and the mode of transport has to be approved by the office of the student affairs they're not allowed to use public transportation in terms of accommodations those students who had to stay in dormitories had to stay only in university accredited dormitories and we are glad that even before the pandemic we had a partner in accrediting these dormitories we used rental B and they accredited dormitories especially in the university belt and these are some of the dormitory rooms that were used and accredited by rental B the school to home transport of the students were very closely monitored before they come to school they have to report to their faculty and they were assigned some groups of some students were assigned to particular faculty they have to report first to their faculty to indicate the status of their health at that time before they go to school and when they go to school of course the usual screening when they return to home to their houses, to their homes or to their dorms they have to call again the faculty and tell them that we are here we're back in our dorms or at home that was really bantay sarado in our students for them to be safe in going to and from school and home and of course the students were supposed to bring their own their own PPEs their own dental materials and gadgets their lunch and water and utensils they take lunch inside at their own spot where they are assigned in the clinics they don't take lunch with other students they also have to bring of course their personal hygiene kit and finally when we were ready we were visited by the CHED Evaluation Team including representatives from the Department of Health and the local government unit and here is our chairman of the Commission on Higher Education Chairman De Vera inspecting the dental models that we were going to be using in our dean explaining the use of these and finally we were able to get our authority to conduct face to face classes the authority given to us after the dentistry was also for med tech and nursing and sorry here they are now our students in the well ventilated rooms were very fortunate in CEU Manila that our clinics are very well ventilated so originally when we fixed these rooms we had barriers between chairs when the team of CHED visited they advised us to remove the barriers because anyway the rooms were very well ventilated and at that time there was more knowledge about how the COVID the coronavirus rather is transmitted and so it was recommended that we remove those barriers so our clinics have no barriers they are well ventilated however and there is of course distancing between the students working in their own specific spots and here are some examples of some of the things that the students did so this model has dental caries there that the students are supposed to polish and clean in adult model period Joe this is for the periodontic section this is for the restorative dentistry section where the students prepare the model tools for fillings and then the light curing that follows and they were also expected to be able to do extraction both from the upper and lower jaws and I have a very short video here of that extraction that's being done there you are done for our students now I just want to say that following the Swiss cheese model of COVID-19 prevention this is what is important the cheese model that I am presenting here is not about the protective mechanisms but rather about the institutions that are involved in face-to-face classes first of all the commission on higher education and department of health giving us the general guidelines and then the centroskolar university community implementing and making operational those guidelines and the entire university was involved the health service unit of the university the security department the student affairs were also involved and of course the entire school of dentistry headed by Dean Pearly Lim also did their part and the parents also had a very important role in seeing to it that their children were also had the correct protection and the students themselves and that was very important it's very important that the students are ready are able to do their part in seeing to it that they can do the face-to-face classes safely and well as they say the proof of the pudding is in the eating and finally after starting June 6 up to the first week of August the school of dentistry was able to complete six batches of students totaling 212 students each batch had a maximum of 38 students because that's the number maximum number of students that our clinics can accommodate at any one time and we were very glad really that all remained COVID free during the cycle that they were in so finally we had actual graduation for them on September 25 later this month a special graduation we don't usually have graduation in September but we are very glad that they had finished and I'm sure they're also very glad that they have finished so we would like to celebrate with them and we really targeted that they finish at this time and part of dentistry of BRC will be able to conduct its licensure examination in December 2021 and our students will be able to take the exam and we really pray and hope that they will be that they will all pass the exam and well the first question was ligtas ba? may kasigaruhan ba? ay langan lang sobrang ingat sa bawat isa bawal talaga ang makalingap at gawin ang lahat ng kaya the rest let the lord take care of the rest and of course sorry and from our experience what we can say is that success comes from group effort fueled by the commitment of each individual to thank the CEU community the CEU team for being able to do this and being able to allow our students to finally graduate and complete their studies thank you very much thank you again for allowing us to do the sharing thank you very much that's Dr. Christina Padulina of Central Scholar University and another amazing presentation and I was listening to the three and I think if we get all the good practices of your three schools we'll probably have a almost perfect face-to-face kind of training for our young health professionals or aspiring health professionals okay so thank you very much mam please join us in the please join us in the panel discussion and you can see all the congratulations thanks on the chat box marami rin nakikindag mo na sa CEU okay they want over to you thank you so much Dr. Padulina really wonderful presentation and looks like very well loved and marami po nakatend from CEU mam just based on the messages from the chat okay yes mam, marami salamat po sa pag-invita sa inyong faculty so next up we will have very very quick reactions from two students po one with a background in medicine and another po background in dentistry she is from the U.P. College of Medicine Class of 2022 Dr. Rani Aylina Domingo and also one from the Central Escular University dentistry compass chapter Dr. Daniel Luis Puzpo so let's call on Dr. Domingo first for her reaction afternoon, thank you sir Raymond first of all I would also like to thank the other speakers who presented their protocols and their guidelines when it comes to their face-to-face classes so we certainly learned a lot and as mentioned by Dr. Suzie Awailago we can consolidate all the good practices so that we can surely perform face-to-face for all of the students in the Philippines so as a reaction I would also just like to correlate what was mentioned in discuss Awailago to what happened with our batch during our internship here so I'm currently an intern on my last year of medical education and before we started face-to-face classes we had to go through several steps in order to ensure that we are safe and that our patients are also safe when we start performing procedures or when start interacting with them in the hospital so first prior to everything before we even started our duties on our physical classes we had mask fitting so this was alongside the orientation that was prepared for us and this was done to ensure that all of our masks all our personal protective equipment were aligned or properly allocated in terms of its fit to us so this also ensures that highest standards of precautionary measures to protect its students so for our case we had different precautionary measures mainly mask fit testing provision of proper PPE supplies and ensuring that we are all negative in our PPCR swabs before allowing us to go back to face-to-face classes so our testing was done to ensure that all of our patients were safe so our testing was also done across all of us so all in the batch we had to ensure that no one tested positive and we also followed CheD's guidelines and protocols about students having to test three to five days prior to the sort of their classes so if students did not or students were not able to achieve this deadline or meet this timeline if they already had scheduled activities for that day so aside from proper PPE provision and mask fit testing prior to the start of our actual face-to-face interactions we had bridging programs as mentioned by Chancellor Padilla Awaila Go so for our first medical students they had another bridging program where they had dissections in batches to ensure that social distancing is followed and that transmission is communicated throughout their bridging dissection program for us interns, we also had this bridging program which is more on the skills training to properly prepare us in terms of how we will manage our patients in the ward how we will perform procedures and how we will interact with our patients who we will care for throughout our internship year so for us for our batch of interns since we weren't able to have as much physical interactions with patients before the pandemic and the lockdowns instituted last year we found the training sessions and the skills training programs very helpful for us since we weren't just thrown out in the wards and in the hospital without proper knowledge or prior knowledge of what we needed to do for our patients so before our face-to-face classes we had bridging programs to complement or to supplement we will be able to take care of our patients the right way and in the way that they deserve so this is also similar to what about what all food did with their mannequins so this is a nice springboard for when students go to face-to-face classes because since we are stuck in our homes for the past one and a half year we need to freshen up our skills and we need to brush up on the procedures and how to manage our patients so bridging programs is very beneficial in terms of easing in transition between virtual learning and face-to-face learning for the students so this is so the appreciation of the students for this is certified by the 80-90% attendance for both summer programs so the first year students had one of out of the 190 first year students approximately 150 students joined the session and for us almost all were able to attend the training programs aside from the ones that who needed to be cancelled because of other logistical reasons so aside from that our duty schedules also needed to be shifted or to be changed in terms so that it can be adapt to the COVID situation in our hospital so before we would have lots of students in the hall room lots of students under posts now the rotations and our departments had to divide every block into separate posts so for example some students would first go into telemedicine the others would be in the wards and for surgical fields they would a lot other students in the surgical operating room so in this way we can ensure that no specific area in the hospital is crowded and that proper social distancing is practiced as well as other precautionary measures so this is also ensune with what CEU did in terms of them having their students go into batches making sure that all of the students have certain quarantine periods before going back to their face-to-face classes so for us since we had a lot of students I think we are 300 plus in our batch we just had to divide them into different posts to ensure that no area in the hospital is crowded with students at any given time so aside from that for our face-to-face classes we also had different systems or levels in place to ensure that all the students and the faculty are safe and protected and well accounted for and this is correlated with what Chancellor Padilla mentioned a while ago in terms of having us accomplish the UPM best twice a day so as mentioned a while ago the UPM best is an application where all students can log in our temperatures, our exposures if there is any and any symptoms that we experience throughout our duties or physical classes so the UPM best is ideally answered twice a day to ensure that before going to classes we are asymptomatic, we don't have exposures and after classes we also can check whether we are exposed we have developed any new onset of symptoms and we can report as needed so what's good about the application is that this is connected directly with our immediate superiors and the committees in charge of the students are regularly notified if some students are exposed or are presenting asymptomatic or asymptomatic so aside from that I think the CEU also has the system of close monitoring for their students and this is also evident in our setting because of the multiple levels that we have in terms of safety precautions so we have student safety officers so we have among our classmates we have block officers as aside from the class officers and these officers we hand in hand to ensure and to monitor the COVID status of the class to ensure that everyone is able to report whatever symptoms they feel or whatever exposures they experience throughout their duty schedules so the student safety officers also coordinate with resident coordinators since we are also working hand in hand with them in terms of managing our patients in the wards so aside from our student our resident coordinators we also have consultant coordinators in the department to ensure that everything is coordinated and we have a top-down approach to reporting symptomatic students or those who might need quarantine, isolation or swabbing purposes if needed so I think a special notable part of our education right now during our internship here is our exposure to the community so aside from being deployed to the hospitals we are also deployed to the community partners of the UP-PGH and the UP-CM so aside from all the other things I've mentioned a while ago we also have mandatory swabbing prior to the deployment to these communities to ensure that we are safe going into the said communities and if at any point in our rotation there we become symptomatic we are immediately pulled out to be assessed and to ascertain that other students aren't exposed unnecessarily so in the communities and also in the hospitals we are on high alert if someone gets exposed and we coordinate directly with our faculty and our staff to ensure that the proper management is done in terms of whether they need quarantine isolation or swabbing as needed so I think what this webinar shows is that the good points that earlier by our esteemed administrators can all be used to ensure that face-to-face classes is done if not all students across the health professional sector and to answer the question if face-to-face classes is linkedas or safe and if it can be done yes I would like to say that yes it can be done as long as the proper systems in place are in place to ensure that the students the faculty, the staff and everyone involved in the delivery of medical education is safe, protected and well-accounted for throughout their entire stay during face-to-face classes so that's all for me, thank you so much Thank you Dr. Rani really just an example po of everything that you have experience to date, bilang you are an intern right now okay moving on po to the Dentistry background po may we call on Dr. Dan Puspos for the reaction thank you Dr. Raymond go ahead Dan good afternoon po and thank you thank you po Dr. Raymond as well as to the presenters for sharing all the safety and after reaction to be honest before going into face-to-face classes we all had initial hesitation at least because dentists were one of those with the highest risk associated with COVID and putting the education must be resumed boss in education is too much especially unsupposed to be graduating students who were already done with lecture classes and left with only clinical requirements some of the clinical requirements were made flexible by offering virtual clinics there are still other procedures needed to be done face-to-face now good thing limited face-to-face was almost ready to be facilitated during that time and transition from operating risk to managing risk was almost welcome and facilities were accommodating protocols and ensure the safety of everyone who'd participated face-to-face classes was non compulsory offered first to the graduating class now before the first batch several online meetings were conducted explaining the protocols according to both which were both reassuring many factors were addressed such as accommodation transportation and even the procedures to be done and choices within those parameters of the approved protocol were given also vaccination was not mandatory but it was highly encouraged and testing was strictly implemented everyone was required to get RTPCR test few days prior to the start of the program and logs were required prior to entering and leaving the school now inside the infirmary proper PPEs were as they enter the infirmary and no patients were allowed only senior clinicians were accepted as they've already experienced interaction and real and alive patients distance was also observed between clinicians and windows were kept open to ensure unrestricted airflow and contact with each other was severely limited now upon reaching our accommodation or houses we were also required to send upon formation emails to ensure the safety of the local this was mentioned earlier by Dr. Padulinas Bandai Serado and overall the translation of these protocols in real life personally I think the protocols were properly set and face to face classes could be possible it is up to the clinicians and everyone involved on how it will be implemented and follow we should not be afraid and learn how to deal with what we are facing right now and we can never fully avoid the risk but it can definitely be managed and that's it for my reaction okay thank you very much can I just say a little thing Dr. Dan Puspos is one of those who will graduate in September and he is graduating with honors wow okay congratulations Dan Dan is Vice President for Dentistry Compass Chapter of Central Scholar and congratulations Magna cum laude in Dentistry ba yon pre-wondo no mahirap ang butin yan so congratulations I'm sure your parents are very proud of you and your president of the university so proud of you okay we're now going into our panel discussion and I would like to call on all our speakers so we'll have Attorney Cindy we have Chancellor Menchit Carol from Our Lady of Fatima and of course Dr. Cristina Padulina and our two students Rani and Dan and but before we start our panel discussion we have our usual public service announcement from TVUP TVUP take it away pay it thank you okay tabi mo na yan para masukriyan ko ang mga sacrificio na sa taong bayan mapagbigay po kayo naikita ko ang mahal na mahal ninyo ang inyong pamilya kama ka kaya nag-alala na ako kano ba matapos ng pandemiyang to para matapos umkisahan na ninyo magpabakuna na kayo magpapabakuna ko yan very very nice public service announcement po so we are really going through all of our inventory of public service announcements and this is just one of the many outputs of the UP Research Entitled Communicating COVID-19 in post quarantine Philippines the project is headed by our UP Vice President for Public Affairs Dr. Elena Perna and funded by the DOSTP HRD Head HSPR Project Okay, let's start the ball rolling Dr. Susie. Okay, thank you very much Raymond and thank you so much to all our speakers and to our students for excellent presentations I think you'll see in the chat box and we have lots of questions also in our Q&A box but let me just sort of start out by saying that in the 1917 great influence of pandemic when all hell broke loose when all their health systems collapsed nurses were actually being kidnapped because if people couldn't get into hospitals and they had to be outside or in their homes it became a very desperate situation that's why when I started thinking about this topic and we were discussing it last week I said this is really a very serious problem I think we are looking at so many aspects of the pandemic but we are not really looking at how we are going to replenish our health human resources so there are a number of good questions in the chat box but let me start by asking everyone if you had sorry I don't want to make a political commentary but I guess I will we are hearing a lot of money that's not been spent if some money went just a fraction of that money they are talking about could go to medical nursing dentistry allied medical professions education what do you think is the priority intervention what should it be spent on sure you are making extraordinary taking extraordinary steps actually one of the questions in the chat and we will get to that in a bit is that does this mean that tuition will increase because it's like the burden of resuming education is falling on the laps of our administrators they are brilliant, innovative they are creative but you heard she said she had to spend millions just to retrofit the dentistry the college of dentistry and so on and so forth so I think the question is over the long haul if you had unlimited resources let's say at least one billion of the multiple billions that have not been spent what should be the priority for medical education for education of the health professionals and I'm going to start with our Executive Director from CHED what do you think of this go ahead Cindy attorney Cindy Raymond did we lose attorney Cindy I'm looking for but let's go to Menchit Chancellor Padilla Well you know if you compare our situation with other countries where in the herd immunity is a lot better they've been able to sort of go back to the normal situation so if let's say if we're just talking I'm not even talking about education talk about generality so that's one angle we're in we've got to protect our health workers and the population so that we can go back to the normal life if you're just talking about education per se I mean you know my campus it's so small but if I had the luxury and I had a bigger land with a lot of stories I would love to bubble as a matter of fact Director got at one point the two of us were sort of like thinking like how could we bubble you know and it's difficult so that means it's nice but it's impossible so we have to go to the next best thing so but if you were to plan for the next pandemic I think you know I am really many of the things we're doing now already in preparation for the next pandemic we've got to come up with things we're in if this happens again then we should have the proper environment we're in education should not stop I'll end there right nice okay let's go to Carol Carol what do you think well first um Susie I could take care of my people first and my students so if I could have the funding and put it in vaccinations and then secondly I would put it in technology moving forward you know you can do your barriers and everything else but you have to think beyond COVID-19 the way to go is post COVID what happens to education will we be safer will we have permutations will we have hybrid learning so technology and find ways which I could deliver education correctly on site off campus remotely at the same time okay thanks a lot Dr. Christina Padulina yes very similar to what Carol said we blended learning the use of technology I think is here to stay and we have improved our facilities on that and I really wish that our government would help not only public funded institutions but also private institutions like Carol's and mine CEU and Fatima and all the others we really need that technology for more to be able to do more simulations so that their students will have a more efficient time when they actually do clinics with patients they will be more prepared and I think they will need to spend less time with patients so that's number one improve internet connectivity over the Philippines why can't we do that is possible if the commitment is there and yes testing and more vaccines for all our students and also our faculty and staff thank you I agree with you completely there should be no distinction between public and private schools at the end of the day we need both to produce our nurses our doctors, our dentists and so on and I can only imagine that the burden that you have in the private sector is that this gets passed down to the students and to the families so we're not going to ask the question on tuition right now but I think this is a problem that we can already see if this continues then we will I started by saying kinnikidnap yung mga nurse mo we cannot afford we cannot afford to lose we already are under staff in terms of human resources health human resources in the Philippines we do not have the numbers that we need and if we have less can you imagine what kind of another disaster disaster this is not beyond the economic disaster so okay let's listen to our students let's start with Rani Rani what do you think for me ma'am if we were given enough resources to cover for what we want to prioritize I would stick with the principle of prevention being better than cure in the sense of adequate provision of PPEs because being in the medical field being in the health professional field we need to move forward and adapt to technology and we need to start learning how to incorporate technology to our education but we also cannot do away with face-to-face exposure and interaction with patients so we need to ensure that when our students go to the host awards to the communities they are secure they have proper protections within them using PPEs and other systems in place and we need to strengthen our system our environment to make sure that we can sustain the protection of our staff of our students in the long run so I think I also agree with allocating funds for vaccination for our students, faculty but also for our patients we also need as much support as they can Thank you, ma'am Thank you very much, Rani. Dan, what do you think Dan? You muted Dan For me in dentistry we have two divisions we have didactics and our clinical skills training so I would divide if ever given a huge amount of money to those two now in terms of didactics just like what Dr. Padalina said internet access must be supported we should have reliable connection enough bandwidth mobile data and sometimes even load and of course how to access that kind of materials online we need to have also access to gadgets it could either be provided loaned or even just a support could be given as well as technical support for both teachers and students in setting up lectures and accessing materials for online consumption emotional support for the impact of the transition to online learning just like what Dr. Carmen Cisapadili said and in terms of clinical skills training I think we should focus on clinics being retrofitted to the highest standard by giving negative air pressure HEPA filters which aims to prevent air assault that are generated during patient care and avoid infection highest level of PPEs and also dental chair side training for proper guidance like portable hand pieces and typodons and also we should have scheduled access to campus for simulation activity but almost within a bubble and in the bubble accommodation transportation should always be taken in consideration and thus come in the financial assistance for these students to pursuing this career in health professions Also free during and post face-to-face support must be given to everyone to attend and lastly assistance in worst case scenario in contracting COVID and if supplies and money were not a problem I think procuring more vaccines and allow more allied health professionals to administer professor dissemination can really help solve the problem of COVID so I think those are the things we're in I will spend money on if you haven't done limited budget Thank you Dan and Rani it's almost like you guys need to be appointed to be head of a task force for continuing education you have very good ideas and I think very practical and ito nga sinasabi natin para sa pandemya lahat ng talino kailangan gamitin natin because it's not just about numbers and testing people or providing services we have to think about how this health system runs and it cannot run without good well-trained health professionals Okay over to you Raymond Okay thank you Dr. Sussi I'll just we have nearly 100% well at least for question number two I'm looking at the two poll questions and based on the and based on the answers well I'll read the question first are face-to-face classes necessary for training of health workers we've obviously heard from our esteem pan of experts and our reactors how important it is for them to have face-to-face classes but number two I'll tie it to one of the questions in the Q&A box about what are the important concerns for COVID-19 infection in limited face-to-face school is it public transport, dormitories hanging out with friends, eating groups or all of the above and one of the questions actually it is the most up-voted question students may be safe at home they may also be safe at school but what happens in between traveling between the home and the school are the schools looking to potentially taking care of the travel between the home and the school okay thanks Raymond so I think our answer is all of the above and in the case of CEU they are addressing the transportation issue I guess it's so complicated but I kind of imagine we would create a dome right where you could you have a little hospital there inside and then all the patients are also tested your faculty is tested in a boarding school almost like a sci-fi movie Raymond what question would you like to get from our audience well that was the first question so we just well a little bit answered but it has a little bit more complexity just based on the question but there's one and it's unfortunately we don't have EDC in Diharo still on the meeting but the question comes from Selina Gelyada and she says the joint memorandum circular 2021-001 requires higher education institutions to assume the medical expenses of infected students in case they are not covered with medical insurance or field health for the SUCs is shed providing a budget for this one so that was our second most upvoted question po we understand that there are a little bit for each of the universities that we have on the panel it's more nuanced po but we'd like to hear any additional rejoinders to this question from our audience Dr. Raymond Yes, Dr. Karal, go ahead mam Yes, that's precisely why we're requiring our students to have our field health so in case something happens to them there's a fallback on the medical payments and everything else but on top of that it has individual responsibility and we have to make sure that aside from following the protocols each and every department each and every sector would have a whole of nation approach like sometimes you go to the malls and you're surprised there are no markings on the floor but in the schools everything is structured you have the markings but I guess everybody has to embrace it there's a different way of doing things and part of that is to preserve our health so that we don't become burdens to the government is to follow and to make sure that we protect ourselves also use the right PPEs health wise vaccine yourself first opportunity that comes along do that and then be honest when it comes to tracers and make sure you always update because otherwise it becomes a useless endeavor people just show the QR and it doesn't mean anything just part of your process it has to be done but funding, you're right for the students that's why we ask our students to vaccinate themselves hepatitis the flu vaccine so that if and when it comes to you you're a little bit more protected against other diseases thank you thank you very much Harold we are unfortunately reaching the top of the hour and we will have to ask our speakers we'll give you a few minutes to think about some closing remarks just a few minutes what message do you want to leave our audience particularly all our students out there Raymond we have more than 2,000 earlier we had about 2,200 on the webinar and I think a lot of them are students who really want to know what preparations are being made and we hope that your fears have been I think our speakers have shown us how safe really the learning environment is going to be so anyway you have a few minutes to think of your parting words while Raymond is going to go with our evaluation Raymond over to you thank you Dr. Susie may we have our final poll for the day which is our assessment poll so it's a five question poll po it has been a staple for our webinars and for those who are asking ito na po yung evaluation that you have been asking via email or via direct message so please at least for those who are in attendance po no we are still 2,000 please key in your answers here dito po sa zoom poll na to first question reads the panelists demonstrated thorough knowledge of the topic it's a like it's used as a record scale strongly agree, agree, disagree the panelists were well prepared and organized number three, the panelists spoke clearly and audibly, number four the panelists used appropriate language with technical medical jargos adequately explained and finally the panelists contributed to new perspectives and knowledge on managing various key COVID-19 health issues we will not be closing our zoom poll as we move on to the final word message po from our resource speakers okay thank you very much did we have attorney Cindy back I still am not seeing her okay, we'll start with Dan Dan, come on I think we should not be afraid and learn how to deal with what we are facing right now we can never fully avoid the risk but it can definitely manage I really think it's about the management and how it's going to be enforced okay thank you very much Dan, Rani so I think at this point it's not a matter it's not anymore a matter of if we're going to go back to school but when we're going to resume face to face cause and what systems are in place to protect the students and the faculty alike so in the planning and ensuring that the D safety precautions are met we need to emphasize the shared responsibility between the students, the stakeholders and the institutions because for us we need to adhere strictly to the proper protocols and the guidelines but we also need to be ensured and assured of the precautionary measures that we need to ensure that we will be safe throughout our face to face classes that's all thank you okay thank you very much Rani Kristina Padulina thank you the HEIs all of us are already preparing for the time when we are able to do more on campus so like Carol she's doing what Carol? Ventilation audits already of her classrooms offices all of those we need to do and we would like to the message that I would like to have is that we all have our own responsibilities in this matter and it can be done if all of us will assume that responsibility and take it very seriously so to parents and students participate in dialogues and administration give all your concerns but on the other hand please also remember that you must also bear some of that responsibility and you cannot give everything to the school to do because you are part of that community so let's all contribute to do our part but really I just wish if we could have a wish here for government to participate more and do more for education and not just say no face to face at this point tell us give us something so that we can go on thank you thank you very much that's Dr. Christina Padulina the president and chief academic officer for our university let's go to Dr. Carol Enriquez who is the speaking for our lady of Fatima University Carol go ahead thank you Susie basically we're not aware when the pandemic will end or what the future life for each of us what we can do about our education however we should not let the situation control us we should be able to be in control of the situation and the challenges and all the adversities that comes along with the COVID-19 scenario and how do we do this by being responsible for ourselves by following all the protocols all the regulations succeeded and at the same time making sure that it's not it just has to be done but it has to be a whole of nation approach it's not just that I'm doing this at the campus because it's needed in the campus but wherever I go I will need to follow the protocols be it on public transport be it in the market places be it at home that's the only way I think that we could help curtail the COVID and it's some adverse effects and hopefully also we find ways by which we learn to be accountable for our actions and help others also to be accountable for their actions so that's all thanks Susie and Raymond thank you very much Chancellor Menchit Padilla go ahead I have two messages the first message is actually for the students and their parents it's trust administration trust administration of the school of your children you've heard three examples today and we're doing our very best to make it safe for the children avoiding the COVID-19 pandemic as we've heard it's a whole of society approach so we cannot do it on our own but my bigger message now is planning for the future and this is a message for government you really have to plan for the next pandemic there will be another disaster there will be another pandemic we cannot wait while others are addressing the problems of today group to think of how to become a resilient school a resilient society a resilient community so that there will be no disruption in the education of the health professions and not only the health professions but for all so at the end of the day we all have to do our share and for today based on our webinar trust the administration we're trying our very best okay thank you very much thank you so much mentioned so we are now going to listen to a set of closing remarks from the dean of the U.P. College of Medicine Dr. Charlotte Chong Raymond did you want to go through the evaluation first no it just shows very consistently as with our previous webinars at least 90% average for all of the questions that our respondents have put in I'm seeing 1470 respondents so for those who are asking ito na po ang evaluation poll or assessment survey that you are looking for so we hope that you were able to participate okay Dean Chong over to you ma'am yes good afternoon to everyone again thank you for inviting me to give the closing remarks and perhaps just give a very short synthesis of what has happened in the past 2 hours we opened of course with the opening remarks of attorney Cindy Haro and she mentioned all the different memoranda and what Ched has been doing in order for us to be able to go back to for face-to-face classes and I think that's been very helpful for many institutions to have that guidance and joint memorandum order from Ched along with the Department of Health I know that UP Manila has UPPGAs has contributed much to having all those formulated protocols and we're happy that they're being followed if you remember right about 130 schools have now offered face-to-face classes but there should be more we saw the presentation of our own Chancellor of how UP Manila has been able to get face-to-face classes ongoing in about 6 of our colleges and also the School of Health Sciences and of course UP College of Medicine is one of those colleges as you saw our interns now are back in PGH and we've been able to get IATF to exempt us from the fact that we can still have face-to-face rotations in PGH despite the fact that we're on MECQ so there can also be exemptions to that and we encourage some of the schools to look into how you might be able to still have face-to-face despite the quarantine status being at MECQ the way that Ateneo School of Public Health and Medicine as well as UP College of Medicine and PGH has been able to do it we also saw first the fact that UP Manila best is an app and software that was developed and is quite useful for the students as well as the interns rotating in PGH and the provision of PPE as mentioned by your Dr. Rani Domingo has been as well as the vaccination of all the students and the interns as well as testing prior to the rotation has given them a margin of safety and more confidence in being able to resume face-to-face classes we moved on to another very very interesting presentation of Dr. from out early the Fatima University Dr. Enriquez and Dr. Carol here has given us really a purview of how it is in a private institution where mannequins are used as well as protocols are being followed and hands-on as a mantra of the nursing has been really very interesting on how they are able to plan and execute and even innovate later on in order for the students to be able to really benefit from this more personalized individualized instruction we saw how dentistry CEO from Dr. Christina Padolina has been able to graduate more than 212 dentistry students by being able to allow them to go back for their clinical and practicum exercises and be able to carry on with their dentistry education and clearly is an example for how other dental schools might be able to improve the number of dentists to be able to serve our country which I'm sure as the highest oral care I think carries or oral health is quite a really important issue in our country and the reaction of Dr. Rani Rani and as well as Dr. Danny Puspos has been very enlightening for us as administrators that our students have the capacity to also suggest and this is really what has been going on student empowerment is very important communication with students and parents is very important in this pandemic so we look forward to a to modernize the pedagogy in healthcare education and I think those three institutions UP Manila Our Lady of Fatima University as well as the Central School University have given us really good examples that if you are able to consolidate can really move us forward in being able to offer more classes but the challenge is for government to realize that it has to do more if we see billions of pesos not really being used when there are so many institutions needing of these funds to be able to carry out better healthcare education for the future health professionals in these countries is an eye-opener I know that because we know that for the doctors where we will already have doctors state funded in different regions of the country the funding has not come down we are still waiting for the U.P. College of Medicine and it's already September so we do not know whether we will be able to procure the mannequins that we wanted we do not know whether we will be able to pay for additional items for our faculty who we will rely on in order to modernize pedagogy at the College of Medicine and we've always been saying that why can government actually subsidize connectivity if not give talk to the telco companies to be able to bring down the cost of internet connectivity for all the people so that education can really be given remotely unhumpored by connectivity issues and why can government provide transportation in order for people to be driven safely to their workplaces we have already vaccination I think with the vaccine mandate we should be able to have this transportation facilities open to those who have been vaccinated and perhaps be able to encourage more people to get vaccinated because they will be able to be given all these incentives if they are vaccinated so we have to think out of the box and I think I'd like to leave that with the closing finish my closing remarks by saying that we can all do this at the same time examples of how Bayanihan and being able to harness the talent and the ideas of all our stakeholders can really proper higher education especially in the healthcare field to be able to continue producing the healthcare manpower that we need we know of some really healthcare workers who are now really tired some are already discouraged but we would like to encourage them to really need you yun lang po marami-marami salamat Thank you very much Well said, that's Dean of the College of Medicine of the University of the Philippines Dr. Charlotte Chong and really you are all high value assets to our country all health workers and I think it's time for us to clamor for support for education because as this progresses this is a group of individuals that society cannot exist without we really need to have priority focus given to education of our health professionals Next week! I am really looking forward to the discussion next week as I'm sure you will also appreciate this our topic is Outbreak Sa Provincia We have been hearing from many of our tertiary well funded well staffed hospitals but when we're seeing the outbreaks happening in the rest of the country where we do not have the same level of facilities human resources equipment what do we do? So we've got some great people who have already confirmed so I can announce their names Dr. Rio Magpantay you know him he is one of the directors he's now in Kagayan Valley Center for Health Development so we will talk about Region 2 and we were talking about this can manage in the whole of Region 2 from Sibu we have Ryan Albert Lim from Illigan City we have Dr. Lionel Albert Kitos and from Sambuanga Farotan Omar so next week po sabihan yung po itong usapan natin kasi pag-usapan natin kung ano nangyari sa mga Provincia na nagkakaran ng surge Thank you so much Dr. Suzy before we draw to a close I'll just take this opportunity to greet our attendees all the way from Kagayan State University and Grus Campus into Tugagarau Occidental Mindoro State College from the Midwifery Department San Jose Occidental Mindoro DepEd from Kamarinisur Simirara Mining and Power Corporation Hospital in Antique and DepEd from Sambuanga Sibugay Internationally we are also being watched and viewed po all the way from Deradun, India from the People's College of Nursing and Research Center Bhopal, India from Oman College of Health Sciences in Muscat Chunin Hospital in Taipei, Taiwan Nguyen Thai Hawk Clinic I hope I pronounce it correctly from Vietnam Island Hospital in Penang, Malaysia Bangkok Thailand Bayu AE Damam Saudi Arabia from St. Catherine's in Ontario, Canada University of Fiji in Lautoka Lunichi Ali University of Bleed at Tube, Algeria and bago po ito Not a typo Diego Garcia, British Indian Ocean Territory Maraming-maraming salala po sa patuloy napagsubay-bay at panunod ng ating Stop COVID-19 Webinar Series We'd also like to take this opportunity to thank the very hardworking team behind the Stop COVID-19 Webinar Series without each and every one of you we won't be able to bring out and churn out quality and credible online webinars po para sa bawat isa and finally All Stop COVID-19 Webinars are archived for viewing at the YouTube channel of TVUP. You can also view them in the social media accounts ng ating University of Philippines TVUP and also Stop COVID-19 na Facebook pages Okay, so this formally closes our webinar for the week for each and every one of you especially our healthcare workers We want to say that you are valued, you are appreciated and you are loved Maraming-maraming salamat po We hope to see you again next week and enjoy your company during our regular Friday lunch date from 12 noon to 2pm It's a date Together we can stop COVID-19 deaths Keep healthy and see you online I'm looking to myself and ask Do I have strength to carry on? Oh God, how long will this go on? 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