<P> The mission of UPM - SHS is to train clinically competent and socially conscious health workers who will stay and serve in depressed and underserved communities especially in the rural areas . It also has the mandate to develop a training model for the training of community oriented health workers that could be replicated in other areas of the Philippines . </P> <P> The school offers an innovative "step - ladder" curriculum where each student starts at a single point and exits at various levels with varying competencies, first as Community Health Worker (CHW), or Midwife then sequentially as Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN), and eventually as Doctor of Medicine (MD). Admissions to this innovative program depend on the needs of the community and the desire of the student to do community work . Rural communities nominate who will be the student assigned to them . </P>

University of the philippines school of health sciences in leyte