Transition Module

Class of 2025

Start forming a community “common unity” amongst yourselves.

• love, serve, and sacrifice for one another

• St. Ignatius way: self-transendence - going beyond the self; walang “kami-kami,” or “kayo-kayo”
lang

• Synergy of the batch > Individual gifts

• Always get together - kapit bisig sa bawat isa

• No one survives alone in ASMPH and beyond

• Synergy: love, care for, and nurture each other

• No Atenean left behind

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THE TRANSITION MODULE.

By Dr. Archie Aguirre

Transition Module Coordinator

• An institutional absolute requirement for enrollment

• Aims to usher in, orient, and familiarize all admitted applicants of ASMPH

◦Vision and Mission

◦Culture

◦Challenges

◦Curricula and Policies

◦Ignatian Mission and Identity

• With sharing of past experiences by faculty and upper-level students, and specially designed
activities

• 2-week, non-credit, non-academic

• At the end:

◦Discuss the current and future global and local healthcare and healthcare delivery status,
challenges, and opportunities

◦Catholic, Jesuit, and Filipino

◦Interrelationship of public health, management, and medicine - the Atenean Doctor-Leader of

the future

◦Experience the nature and value of teamwork in achieving goals

• Submodules - all must be passed

◦Management

◦Public Health

◦Leadership and Formation

• Required for enrollment:

◦Attendance and active participation

‣ In the event that you cannot participate (due to emergencies, etc.), please inform Dr.
Archie immediately (or Ms. Patty - in charge of YL5)

◦Submission of Requirements

◦Commitment Form

Synchronous sessions:

• August 20

• August 27

• September 1

• September 2

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THE MBA PROGRAM.

The Ateneo Graduate School of Business.

Systems Thinking.

• A system is a set of relationships. It consists of 3 things: identifiable elements, relationship among

elements, and clear notion of boundary

• Involves “look at an issue from multiple perspectives” way of thinking

• Preferable to analytical thinking in managing change and solving problems

• The body is a system - when looking at a patient, you also look at the family members of this
patient, how do they affect the patient?

Strategic Thinking.

• Strategic: of high-value and important

• Thinking: to analyze and conceive decisions, ideas, and plans in one’s mind

• Strategic thinking is the skill of analyzing and conceiving important ideas, decisions

Leadership.

• Empower people

• Inspire people

• Share vision

• Lead change

Ethics.

• Accountability

• Principles

• Integrity

• Values: it’s not always about choosing between right and wrong

AGSB Mission.

Integrity and Expertise:

Is the itegrity, and is the expertise you have for

serving others?

Basic Features, ASMPH MBA:

• Required courses for the ASMPH MBA:

◦11 courses of 3 units each (vs. 14 courses for the regular MBA)

• Reduced by: Leadership, Ethics, and 2 electives

• Added: Financial Accounting (pre-MBA requirement for regular MBA program)

• A Strategic Management paper is the capstone requirement, in lieu of a thesis. This will be
defended before 3 panelists.

◦Options:

‣ Strategic Management consulting

project

‣ Business Plan for a start-up

enterprise

Management Tools.

• A focus not just on helping our students to acquire skills and techniques, but especially on
the formation of their total person. An emphasis on the perspective that their skills and
talents...

• ...

“What you see depends no only on what you look at, but also, on where you look from.”

— Perspective

Integration.

• Integration of medicine, management, and public health happens in the mind

“If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”

Characteristics of a Jesuit Education.

• Excellence

• Magis: to be more, to do more

• Cura Personalis: personal care

• Amigos en el Señor: community and friendship

• Service

Goals of an Ateneo Education.

• Celebrating excellence

• Deepening spirituality

• Building the nation

Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam: For God’s Greater Glory.

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INTRODUCTION TO THE ATENEO PROFESSIONAL SCHOOLS.

Dr. John Vergara

Vice President of the APS

I. The Ateneo: History and Foundations

◦Society of Jesus: 1581, Manila

◦1595: Jesuits formally opened Colegio de Manila

◦1858: Spanish Jesuits establish Escuela Municipal de Manila

◦1921: American Jesuits replace Spanish Jesuits

◦1932: Fire destroys Intramuros campus; transfer to Padre Faura campus

◦1952: School transfers to the Loyala Heights campus

◦1959: Ateneo de Manila obtains university status

◦1973: School of Arts and Sciences turns co-ed

◦1977: Law School and Graduate School of Business move to the Salcedo campus

◦1978: Ateneo Computer Technology Center (ACTC)

◦1996: School of Government

◦1998: Rockwell campus

◦2000: School of Arts and Sciences is restructured (four)

◦2007: Ateneo School of Medicine and Public Health

◦2009: 100 years of Ateneo

ASMPH: Over 800 students

Why Ateneo?

• Small School

• Excellence: difficult to get in, difficult to stay in, but...

• Nurturing Community

◦Professinal for Others

◦Para sa Diyos at bayan

• Formation, not just technical skills (holistic formation)

Jesuit Foundations.

• Excellence

• Magis: to be more, to do more

• Cura personalis: personal care

• Amigos en el Señor: Community and friendship

• Service

• We build community. We nurture hope.

Jesuit Schools.

• 5 Ateneos in the Philippines

• Sophia University (Tokyo)

• Sogang University (Seoul)

• Loyola University (Chicago)

• ...and more!

II. The Professional Schools

III. APS Mission

Four Schools, One Vision: To Build the Nation

The tumultuous 21st century.

• Technology and the disruptive 21st century (VUCAD)

• Artificial intelligence

• Changing and shifting contexts

• Job displacements

• Political and cultural push backs to globalization, e.g. populism, racism, anti-migration,
protectionism

• The COVID-19 crisis

Graduates we seek to produce.

• Technically excellent professionals

• Can see a bigger context beyond their profession, in service to their country and beyond

Curriculum.

• Technical and Formative

◦To form technically excellent and values-driven professionals

• Formative courses:

◦Ethics

◦Leadership

Interdisciplinarity.

• An Ateneo strength: science, business, social science, humanities teachers in all schools

• In APS:

◦MD-MBA

◦MPM and social sceinces

◦Law and business

Faculty.

• Cura personalis

◦Core of full-time and part-time faculty, teachers and mentors

• Practicioners engaged in their professions

Research.

• Applied

• Solutions for national problems in the professions

• Interdisciplinary

• Aims to change and improve institutions...

Outreach.

• Professionals for others: Use professional skills to improve communities

• Multi-disciplinary approach to community engagement - legal, entrepreneurial, medical

interventions

• APS focus: Universal Health Care

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Ignatian Principles and Values.

• Spirituality that seeks the greater glory of God

• “To be Ignatian”

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Important Information.

ayaguirre@ateneo.edu

Google classroom: 6a3xfkc

Things to do for Aug 20 session:

• Watch the video to be posted on Google Classroom

• Go through the ASMPH Organizational Chart - note your questions