HISTORY OF MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY

HIPPOCRATES

Analyzed urine to aid diagnosis.

ANTISTIUS

First forensic pathologist.

RUFUS OF EPHESUS

First described hematuria.

ISAAC JUDAEUS

Devised guidelines for using urine as a diagnostic aid.

Zacharias Janssen

Invented the microscope.

Anton Van Leeuwenhoek

Improved Janssen's microscope.

400 BC

Based on mere observation of clinical symptoms of the patient's palpation and auscultation.

Athanasius Kircher

Used the microscope to investigate the causes of diseases.

Robert Hooke

Published the Micrographia.

Marcello Malpighi

Investigated the embryology of chicks and the histology and physiology of the glands and viscera.

Jean Baptiste van Helmont

Developed the gravimetric analysis of urine.

Richard Lower

Performed the first blood transfusion in animals.

William Hewson

Described the process of coagulation.

Chinese

Practical immunization by inhaling powder made from smallpox scabs to develop immunity to disease.

Romans

Developed lab tools such as forceps, scalpels, specula, and surgical needles.

India

Practiced toxicology (agadatantra).

Laboratorio Municipal de Manila

Was created in order to examine food, water and clinical specimen

1921

Establishment of school of hygiene and Public health

1927

UP formally opened its degree-granting school of hygiene and public health

1939

the department of public health was created

Philippine Tropical Disease Board

• established to study disease occurrence in the country.

Army surgeons of the 26th Medical Infantry of the 6th US Army

arrived in the philippines on september 1945

208 Quiricada Street in Sta. Cruz, Manila

Address of the 1st laboratory based in the Philippines

1953

1st school of medical technology that was opened and lead by mrs. willa hedrick

Pertinent Laws

Existing laws of the land mandate the professional practice of medical technology

CHED M.O

students of BSMT should comply with this

LABOR LAW

A medical technology professional is entitled to the benefits extended to him/her by an employer-employee relationship

CRIMINAL LAW

incase of work grievances and abuse

CIVIL LAW OF THE PHILIPPINES

The laws and orders governing persons, property, ownership, obligations and contracts, succession, interstate proceedings, and family and marriage.

Philippine Association of Medical Technologists

PAMET stands for?

Mr. Crisanto G. Almario

Father of PAMET

September 15, 1963

PAMET was founded

Philippine Association of Schools of Medical Technology and Public Health

PASMETH stands for?

PASMETH

was established on May 13, 1970

June 22, 1970

First organizational meeting of PASMETH at UST

Dr. Gustavo U. Reyes

First president of PASMETH

PHISMETHS

under the supervision of PASMETH president

Rudolf Virchow

Established the fundamentals of cellular pathology.

Girolamo Fracastoro

Proposed a primitive version of the Germ theory.

Manila Sanitarium and Hospital

Began in July 1929, managed by Dr. Horace A. Hall.

Dr. Jesse Umali

First medical technology graduate in 1955.

Presidential decree no. 223

Approved on June 22, 1973, creating the PRC.

Proclamation no. 1181

Declared the 3rd week of September as a celebration of Medical Technology profession in 1973.

PAMET

Accredited by PRC on July 15, 1975.

PASMETH

The national organization of all recognized schools and colleges of medical technology and public health in the Philippines.

PHISMETS

The national organization of medical technology students.

Charlemagne Tamondong

First PAMET President.

Senate Bill 2722

An act which regulates and modernizes the practice of medical technology.