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Tuesday, a senator encouraged the Department of Health (DOH) to take into account permitting foreign physicians to work temporarily in the Philippines. This would profit from the transfer of technology as well as the interchange of ideas.

Many doctors from outside want to practice medicine in the nation, but the current protective Philippine policy inhibits them from doing so, according to a news release from Senator Francis Tolentino.

“Pero mayroon naman pong mga doktor na rehistrado sa ibang bansa na gusto mag-practice for a little while dito sa ating bansa na espesiyalista nga doon, sandali (lang) sila rito, hindi naman para makipag-compete. There are physicians and specialists with licences from other nations who wish to work temporarily in our nation without competing. Technology will be transferred as a result of this, Tolentino predicted.

He claimed that experts, particularly Filipinos working overseas in the United States, are interested in serving the nation for longer periods of time than only in short-term medical missions.

Additionally, Teodoro Herbosa, the secretary of the DOH, was a guest on Tolentino’s regular radio program on DZRH when he made the idea.

Herbosa concurred, recalling his prior experience as a visiting professor at a medical school in Malaysia, where he found that his Philippine medical license and membership in the Philippine Medical Association were sufficient for him to practice medicine.

“My list of submissions includes my license to practice medicine in the Philippines, my membership in the Philippine Medical Association, my curriculum vitae, and an evaluation of my credentials. After the interview, I submitted my temporary hospital license (I simply sent my license for the Philippines, proof of my membership in the Philippine Medical Association, and my curriculum vitae, which they looked through). In (Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, the National University of Malaysia), they granted me a temporary hospital license following an interview, Herbosa recounted.

In order to permit foreign doctors to temporarily practice their profession in the Philippines, the DOH director stated he will speak with the Professional Regulations Commission about the prospect of easing the country’s current licensing laws.

Tolentino said that a group of French and Spanish doctors from “Doctors Without Borders” spoke to him while he was in Tacloban City during the aftermath of Super Typhoon Yolanda in November 2013.

The legislator claimed that although the foreign doctors wanted to treat very ill people, they could only do first aid procedures since they lacked Philippine medical licenses.

Foreign doctors and surgeons are exempt from obtaining a certificate of registration under Republic Act 2382, also known as The Medical Act of 1959, if they were “called in consultation only and exclusively in specific and definite cases, or those attached to international bodies or organizations assigned to perform certain definite work in the Philippines, provided they shall limit their practice to the specific work assigned to them and provided further they shall secure a certificate of registration.”

The United States Armed Forces commissioned medical officers stationed in the Philippines, meantime, are exempt from the registration requirement if they agree to give their services solely to American service members and “within the limit of their own respective territorial jurisdiction.”

Further, according to RA 2382, “foreign physicians employed as exchange professors in special branches of medicine or surgery whose service may, upon prior authorization of the Board of Medical Examiners are also exempt from obtaining a certificate of registration.”

However, when the epidemic or national emergency is declared over by the Secretary of Health, such authorization will immediately end.

According to reciprocity and other international agreements, the Professional Regulatory Commission is in responsible for approving the issuing of a certificate of registration/license or a special temporary permit to foreign professionals who wish to practice their professions in the nation.

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