BS Public health and BS Med Tech, What's the difference?

[PBBteen4FAN]

What's the difference between UP's BS Public Health and UST's BS Medical Technology?

[asargc]

i suppose community based ang BS PH... aside for up manila. up visayas offers also dat degree.. BS MT, more on labs... the former has the so called community immersion.. sorry cant expound very well.... knew from my friends who were BS PH maj... a lot of them are med docs now...

[PBBteen4FAN]

i suppose community based ang BS PH... aside for up manila. up visayas offers also dat degree.. BS MT, more on labs... the former has the so called community immersion.. sorry cant expound very well.... knew from my friends who were BS PH maj... a lot of them are med docs now...

Thank you

[PBBteen4FAN]

Any UPM-CPH graduates there? Please give your advises so I can choose. I researched but it didn't help me. Maybe I'm not good in researching this time.

-Nahirapan po ba kayo sa Med Tech Board Exam?
-Wala po sa curriculum ang Hematology, Blood Banking, Immunology-Serology etc. Papano po pag nag trabaho na kayo as medical technologist, Hindi niyo napag-aralan yung mga ganyang subjects?
-Ang mga BS PH graduates din po ba makakasabay sa flow ng mga Med Tech grads?
-And if ang isang BS PH grad pwedeng maging Medical Laboratory Technologist, ypu mean they can perfom urinalysis, CBC, drug tests, etc. like any other Med Tech does?

[DokTots]

Any UPM-CPH graduates there? Please give your advises so I can choose. I researched but it didn't help me. Maybe I'm not good in researching this time.

-Nahirapan po ba kayo sa Med Tech Board Exam?
-Wala po sa curriculum ang Hematology, Blood Banking, Immunology-Serology etc. Papano po pag nag trabaho na kayo as medical technologist, Hindi niyo napag-aralan yung mga ganyang subjects?
-Ang mga BS PH graduates din po ba makakasabay sa flow ng mga Med Tech grads?
-And if ang isang BS PH grad pwedeng maging Medical Laboratory Technologist, ypu mean they can perfom urinalysis, CBC, drug tests, etc. like any other Med Tech does?

I already answered your questions in the UP thread.

Anyway, based on your questions, I can surmise you have no plans of pursuing medicine after graduation.

I pursued BS PH because I planned to take up medicine after grad., in which I did, and so did 80% of my BS PH classmates.

If you are planning to be a MedTech, I'm discouraging you from pursuing Public Health.

Although you can definitely be a MedTech after taking PH, you are at a disadvantage.

Firstly, the boards. Already elaborated on this on the other thread.

Secondly, the skills. You definitely, DEFINITELY, need to have your EXTERNSHIP at a training hospital. Externship is basically, you, paying the hospital to train you for a short period of time. My classmates who didn't pursue medicine became MedTechs instead and had their externships at UP-PGH. Now, they are very skilled in all MedTech ways.

In summary, you can be a MedTech even if you are a BS PH grad, but you will get there slowly.

So there.

If you plan on being a MedTech immediately, don't go to UP Manila for BS PH.

If you have all the time in the world to review for the boards and have your externship, then take Public Health.

If you want to pursue Medicine after your undergrad, taking BS PH is a no-brainer!

I think that's what you want to hear!!!

Take a look at this website:
http://www.upm.edu.ph/cph/
^in the website, the UP CPH Admin is congratulating those BS PH students who passed the MedTech board exams, I think its a 100% passing rate

And about UP Visayas offering BS PH, yeah its true! But we offered it first, we've been here since 1928, and all the best professors in Public Health are in UP Manila.

Also, UPM CPH is affiliated with the Boston University School of Public Health, so you may see a few Caucasians roaming in the college sometimes.

Finally, UPM CPH is the SEAMEO-TropMed Regional Network for Public Health, so maraming Southeast Asians ang pumupunta sa CPH para mag-aral.

Isa pa, haha! most doctors who want to have their MPH pursue UP Manila Public Health, so marami kang magiging co-alumni na medical doctors from all over the Philippines.

When I was a medical clerk at UST Med, one of the terror professors, upon finding out na I was from UP Public Health, ay naging mabait sa akin. Turns out she took her Master of Public Health also at UPM, and we're schoolmates daw and she told me that directly.

[malbenpatche]

Any UPM-CPH graduates there? Please give your advises so I can choose. I researched but it didn't help me. Maybe I'm not good in researching this time.

-Nahirapan po ba kayo sa Med Tech Board Exam?
-Wala po sa curriculum ang Hematology, Blood Banking, Immunology-Serology etc. Papano po pag nag trabaho na kayo as medical technologist, Hindi niyo napag-aralan yung mga ganyang subjects?
-Ang mga BS PH graduates din po ba makakasabay sa flow ng mga Med Tech grads?
-And if ang isang BS PH grad pwedeng maging Medical Laboratory Technologist, ypu mean they can perfom urinalysis, CBC, drug tests, etc. like any other Med Tech does?

-Nahirapan po ba kayo sa Med Tech Board Exam?
Graduates of BSPH definitely have a hard time compared to BMLS/BSMT graduates during MT Board exams since most of the board subjects are not included in their curriculum like Hematology, Immunology/Serology, Immunohematology/Blood Banking and MT Laws...usually they cross-enroll these subjects at UST or attend intensive review

-Wala po sa curriculum ang Hematology, Blood Banking, Immunology-Serology etc. Papano po pag nag trabaho na kayo as medical technologist, Hindi niyo napag-aralan yung mga ganyang subjects?
Mahihirapan talaga ang mga BSPH graduates who passed the MT Board exams compared to BMLS/BSMT graduates who also passed the MT Board exams sa pagtatrabaho kasi wala silang 6-months internship and pre-internships...pero UP grads yan so matalino yang mga yan kaya im sure kaya nilang pag-aralan ang trabaho

-Ang mga BS PH graduates din po ba makakasabay sa flow ng mga Med Tech grads?
They do ...pero minsan, especially in government agencies, BSPH have higher positions than BSMT grads kasi ibang trabaho ang handle nila

-And if ang isang BSPH grad pwedeng maging Medical Laboratory Technologist, you mean they can perfom urinalysis, CBC, drug tests, etc. like any other Med Tech does?
oo naman...if they pass the MT Board exam they are allowed (according to RA 5527)

[NOTlazyANYMORE]

it' s simple

medtech = good doctor, good RMT

public health = maybe a good doctor, not good RMT

[mjlorenzo]

it' s simple

medtech = good doctor, good RMT

public health = maybe a good doctor, not good RMT

What's your basis for this? You seem to be a biased person with no knowledge about what public health is.

Public health students learn Hematology, Blood Banking, Immunology-Serology but only for a brief time included in Clinical microscopy and Clinical microbiology major subjects. Also, they are trained to perform urinalysis, fecalysis, CBC, etc. I guess the difference is the usual 6-month internship in terms of training and application gained by medtech grads. The externship recommended by someone here is a good idea. I'm pretty sure BSPH graduates have what it takes to be at par with medtech graduates.

therefore, BSPH can be good RMTs.

Moreover, BSPH is known to be the best premed course. Most of them choosing the course with this reason. The curriculum is very related to the 1st/2nd year of med school only, of course, med school's more extensive. A roommate (who was in med school) of my friend (who was in BSPH) once were studying the same material for a Parasitology exam.

BSPH graduates would be very good doctors.

Please avoid being ignorant.

[magenstrasse]

^ and premed is very different from med. doesn't matter whatever your premed is as long as you'll be faithful to your studies. i have classmates who are psych and other degree programs that are not close to med itself but they made it and they got good grades. if sobrang laid back mo sa med because you're so confident of your premed, wala lang din mangyayari. and as what my prof kept on saying, we're not training you to be medtechs here so we're not going to go into details ng mga spectrophotometry etc.

[viridans]

bsph is geared more on research while bsmt is more on clinical lab practice.
on being an RMT, of course mas may advantage ang bsmt grads kasi mas trained sila to become medtechs compared to bsph.

[boypalaboy]

A BS MT grad has a distinct advantage over a BS PH grad if we are talking about clinical practice, but it does not mean to say that the latter cannot be a good RMT and go head to head with the former.