RA 5527

SECTION 1 STATES?

TITLE - The Philippine Medical Technology Act of 1969

WHAT SECTION IS THIS?

STATES THE 8 RESPONSIBILITIES/FUNCTIONS OF THE COUNCIL OF MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION

SECTION 5 - Functions of the Council of Medical Technology Education

WHAT ARE THE 8 FUNCTIONS OF THE COUNCIL OF MEDTECH EDUCATION?

• To recommend the minimum required curriculum for the course of medical technology.

• To determine and prescribe the number of students to be allowed to take up the medical technology course in each school, taking into account the student-instructor ratio and the availability of facilities for instruction

• To approve medical technology schools meeting the requirements and recommend closure of those found to be substandard.

• To require all medical technology schools to submit an annual report, including the total number of students and instructors, list of facilities available for instruction, a list of their recent graduates and new admissions, on or before the month of June

• To inspect, when necessary, the different medical technology schools in the country in order to determine whether a high standard of education is maintained in said institutions.

• . To certify for admission in to an undergraduate internship students who have satisfactorily completed three years of the medical technology course or its equivalent and to collect from said student the amount of five pesos each which money accrue to the operating fund of the Council

• Formulate and recommend approval of refresher course for applicants who shall have failed the Board Examination for the third time.

• To promulgate and prescribe and enforce necessary rules and regulations for the proper implementation of the foregoing functions.

WHAT LAWS ARE AMND THE RA 5527?

RA 6132

PD 498

PD 1534

HOW MUCH IS THE AMOUNT OF COMPENSATION DOES THE COUNCIL RECEIVE FOR EVERY MEETING THAT THEY ATTEND?

SECTION 4 - COMPENSATION AND TRAVELLING EXPENSES OF COUNCIL MEMBERS

CHAIRPERSON → 50 PHP

MEMBERS → 25 PHP

WHAT SECTION IS THIS?

THIS SECTION STATES THE COMPOSITION OF THE COUNCIL OF MED TECH EDUCATION

SECTION 3 - Council of Medical Technology Education, Its Composition.

WHEN WAS RA 5527 APPROVED AND WHO APPROVED IT?

JUNE 21, 1969 | PRESIDENT FERDINAND MARCOS SR.

WHAT SENATE BILL AIMS TO REGULATE AND MODERNIZE RA 5527?

SB (SENATE BILL) 4273 - An Act Regulating and Modernizing the Practice of Medical Technology

• IT WAS PROPOSED WAY BACK IN 2014

DEFINE SECTION 2A

DEFINE SECTION 2C

DEFINE SECTION 2B

DEFINE SECTION 2D

DEFINE SECTION 2E

DEFINE SECTION 2F

DEFINE SECTION 2G

DEFINE SECTION 2H

WHO ARE THE MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL?

SECTION 3

CHAIRPERSON : Director  of CHED

VICE-CHAIRPERSON : Chairperson of PRC

Members: 

• Bureau of Health Facilities and Services

• Two members from the Board of Medical Technology 

• Representative of deans of MedTech schools/public health  

• President of Philippine Society of Pathologists

• President of PAMET