A UNIVERSITY of the Philippines (UP) Manila graduate topped this year’s Physician Licensure Examination, nine years after acing the nursing board exams.
Jomel Garcia Lapides had a rating of 88.67 percent, the highest among the more than 3,500 who took the tests, according to the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC), which released the results Thursday.
Lapides was also No. 1 in the Nurses Licensure Examination in 2011, when he garnered 88.40 percent.
Tiffany Grace Uy, also a UP Manila graduate who went viral in 2015 for having the highest grade point average in the state university’s history, was in fifth place with 88.08 percent.
Uy graduated magna cum laude from the UP College of Medicine last July.|
Patrick Joseph Amunategui Mabugat from University of Saint La Salle and Adrian Emmanuel Diago Tevez from University of Santo Tomas (UST) shared the second spot with 88.58 percent.
Henrick Ryan Chua Fong of UST was third with 88.33 percent.
Cebu Institute of Medicine had a 100-percent passing rate, with all 138 of its students making it.
UP Manila had the second highest passing rate of 98.63 percent with 146 out of its 144 students passed.
PRC said 4,704 took the medical board exam conducted earlier this month.