COMPUTERIZED CORRECTION OF MEDICAL BOARD EXAMINATION

WHEREAS, the present method of correction of examination papers is
time consuming, requiring about a minute, more or less, for every
examination paper and about 3 to 4 months to finish the correction of
all the examinees’ papers as well as the correction being subject to
human error;

WHEREAS, the Board of Medicine receives numerous complaints from
examinees and/or parents about alleged “fixers” and/or “inside persons”
preying on them which is fostered by the interminable wait for the
examination results;

WHEREAS, in the correction we discover “marked papers” which make us suspect existence of anomalies;

WHEREAS, examination papers were stored for a period of 3 to 4 months
in a “secured” area, yet remain vulnerable to “tampering” by scrupulous
persons;

WHEREAS, the Board of Medicine is duty bound to preserve the
integrity of the Professional Regulation Commission and the Board of
Medicine in particular;

NOW, THEREFORE, we the members of the Board of Medicine, cognizant of
these prevailing conditions, propose to minimize, if not completely
eliminate anomalies, cut down work hours from error prone manual
examination correction and enhance the integrity of the Professional
Regulation Commission by computerizing the process of examination
correction.

Seeking assistance from the computer center of the Technology
Livelihood Research Center (TLRC), a fully computerized correction
system was studied, designed, tested, and demonstrated to the PRC and
ascertained to be accurate and reliable. The computerized correction
would take approximately three days for 2500 examinees.

WE, NOW THEREFORE, pray and request the Professional Regulation Commission to approve this project.

RESOLVED, that, if so approved by the Professional Regulation
Commission this resolution shall be effective starting with the
examination scheduled for August, 1990.

Adopted: 9 Aug. 1990

(SGD.) CESAR A. MILLAR Chairman
(SGD.) CARLOS R. KIPPING, JR. Member	(SGD.) FILEMON T. DEL CARMEN Member
(SGD.) VICTOR C. VALENZUELA Member	(SGD.) BENJAMIN M. LIMSON Member
(SGD.) ROSARIO ANGELES TAN ALORA Member	(SGD.) JULIO B. FRANCIA, JR. Commissioner
(SGD.) NILO C. MARIANO Commission Member	(SGD.) MARIANO A. MENDIETA Commission Member