Minimum required courses.
Section 6
SEC. 6. Minimum required courses.—Students seeking admission to the medical course must have a bachelor of science or bachelor of arts degree or their equivalent and must have taken in four years the following subjects with their corresponding number of units:English 12 Latin 3 Mathematics, including Accounting and Statistics 9 Philosophy, including Psychology and Logic 12 Zoology and Botany 15 Physics 8 Chemistry 21 Library Science 1 Humanities and Social Sciences 12 Twelve units of Spanish shall be required pursuant to Republic Act Numbered Seven hundred nine; but commencing with the academic year nineteen hundred sixty to nineteen hundred sixty-one, twenty-four units of Spanish hill be required pursuant to Republic Act Numbered Eighteen hundred and eighty-one as cultural, social and nationalistic studies. Provided, That the following students may be permitted to complete the aforesaid preparatory medical course in shorter periods as follows: Students whose general average is below eighty-five per cent but without any grade of failure or condition may be allowed to pursue and finish the course in three academic years and the intervening- summer sessions; and Students whose general average is eighty-five per cent or over may be permitted to finish the course in three academic years by allowing them to take each semester the overload permitted to bright students under existing regulations of the Bureau of Private Schools. Provided, That upon failure to maintain the general average of eighty-five per cent, students under (b) shall automatically revert to the category of students under (a) and those under (a), upon having any grade of failure or condition, shall automatically revert to the category of students required to pursue the preparatory course in four years mentioned above. The medical course shall be at least five years, including not less than eleven rotating internship in an approved capital, and shall consist of the following subjects: Anatomy Physiology Biochemistry and Nutrition Pharmacology Microbiology Parasitology Medicine and Therapeutics Genycology Opthalmology, Otology, Rhinology and Laryngology Pediatrics Obstetrics Surgery Preventive Medicine and Public Health Legal Medicine, including Medical Jurisprudence and Ethics.