March 2, 12:30 a.m. – THE UNIVERSITY maintained a 100-percent passing rate in the recent licensure exams for physicians, but no Thomasian entered the Top 10 list of topnotchers.
All 24 Thomasian examinees passed this year’s “off-season” physician board exams. Last year, UST also posted a perfect score, with 26 Thomasians making the cut.
Last year, Thomasian Censon Lemuel Cabanas placed sixth with an average score of 84.92. In 2010, UST’s Charlene Rose Haw also got the sixth place.
No school met the requirement set by the Professional Regulation Commission to be proclaimed as a top-performing school — at least 80 percent passing rate with a minimum of 50 examinees.
The national passing rate for this year’s board exams was 52.53 percent (520 passers out of 990 examinees) — slightly lower than last year’s 53.25 percent (655 out of 1,230). Reden D. Madrid
