amendments

• All laws, executive orders, decrees, rules and regulations or parts thereof, inconsistent with the provisions of this Decree are hereby repealed, amended or modified accordingly.
• There are three amendments to R.A 5527: R.A 6138 of August 31, 1970, R.A 498 of June 28, 1974, and R.A 1534 of June 11, 1978.
• The Department of Health through the Bureau of Research and Laboratories approves laboratories for accreditation as training laboratories for medical technology students or post-graduate trainees in conjunction with the Board of Medical Technology.
• Sections 16, 21, and 22 of R.A 5527 are amended by R.A 6138 of August 31, 1970.
• Sections 2, 3, 4,7,8,11,13,16,17,21,29, and 31 of R.A 5527 are amended by Presidential Decree 498 of June 28, 1974.
• Sections 3,8,11,13 and 31 of R.A 5527 are amended by Presidential Decree 1534 of June 11, 1978.
• All laws, executive orders, decrees, rules and regulations or parts thereof, inconsistent with the provisions of this Decree are hereby repealed, amended or modified accordingly.
• A person registered as a medical laboratory technician when employed in the government shall have the equivalent civil service eligibility not lower than second grade.
• Subparagraph (j) of the same Act is amended to read as follows: “Any person or corporate body who shall allow anyone in his employ who is not a registered medical technologist/medical laboratory technician to engage in the practice of medical technology or recommend for appointment anyone to the position of medical technologist/medical laboratory technician knowing that he is not registered as such is liable for penalties as provided in the Act.
• Persons from other professions who have been actually performing medical technology practice for the last eight years prior to filing of the application, provided that such performance began prior to June 21, 1969, are also eligible for a certificate of registration as medical laboratory technician without examination.
• The Board shall issue a certificate of registration as medical technologist without examination to persons who graduated with a Bachelor of BSMT/BSPH in duly recognized schools of medical technology in the Philippines or in any foreign country, and have been practicing medical technology for at least three years prior to the filing of the application.
• A certificate of registration as medical laboratory technician without examination may be issued to any person who passed the civil service examination for medical technician on March 21, 1964, has finished a two-year college course and has at least one year of experience as medical laboratory technician, and has at least ten years experience as medical laboratory technician as of the date of approval of this Decree regardless of his academic attainment.
• The Board of Medical Technology makes recommendations to the Department of Education and Culture on the approval of schools of medical technology.
• The Professional Regulation Commission is responsible for approving laboratories for accreditations as training laboratories for medical technology students or post graduate trainees.
• The Council of Medical Technology Education is chaired by the Commissioner of the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) and includes the Chairman of the Board of Medical Technology, two members of the Board of Medical Technology, the Director of Private Education or its duly authorized representative, the Director of Bureau of Research and Laboratories of the Department of Health (DOH), a representative of the deans or heads of the private schools of medical technology, the President of the Philippine Association of Medical Technologists (PAMET), and the President of the Philippine Society
• The Department of Education and Culture is responsible for approving schools of medical technology.
• The functions and duties of the Board include determining the adequacy of the technical staff of all clinical laboratories and blood banks before they could be licensed, and classifying and prescribing the qualification and training of the technical staff of clinical laboratories.
• A qualified medical technologist is defined as a duly registered medical technologist of the Philippines with the degree of Bachelor of Science in Medical Technology/Bachelor of Science in Hygiene/Public Health.
• The Medical Technology Board is chaired by the Director of Higher Education and includes the Chairman and two members of the Board of Medical Technology, the Director of Bureau of Research and Laboratories of the DOH, a representative of the deans or heads of the private schools of medical technology and public health, the President of PAMET, and the President of PSP.
• Section 16 of R.A 5527 requires that a person has completed a course of at least four years leading to the degrees of Bachelor of Science in Medical Technology or Bachelor of Science in Hygiene.
• Other persons who having graduated from other paramedical professions are already civil service eligible by authority of the other Boards of profession and who have been actually performing medical technology practice for the last five (5) years prior to the filing of the application.
• Section 2 (Definition of Terms) of RA 5527 defines the practice of medical technology as a person who for a fee, salary or other compensation or reward paid or given directly or indirectly through another, renders any of the following professional services for the purpose of aiding the physician in the diagnosis, study and treatment of diseases and in the promotion of health in general: examination of tissues, secretions and excretions of the human body and body fluids by various electronic, chemical, microscopic, bacteriologic, hematologic, serologic, immunologic, nuclear, and other laborato
• Ten pesos (10): to replace certificate lost, destroyed or mutilated.
• Examination and Registration – The Board shall charge each applicant for examination and registration the sum of fifty (50) pesos.
• Twenty-five (25) pesos: certificate of registration issued without prior examination.
• 10 pesos allocated for registration.
• The Board shall charge each applicant for examination and registration the sum of fifty (50) pesos.
• Section 2 (Definition of Terms) of RA 5527 defines a medical laboratory technician as a person who performs any of the services listed in the practice of medical technology.
• Upon application filed and the payment of the required fee of one hundred and fifteen pesos (P115), a certificate of registration without examination is issued.
• The Board may change, add to or remove from the list of subjects or weights above, as progress in the science of medical technology may require, subject to the prior approval of the council.
• The Board prepares the schedule of subjects for examination and submits the same to the Commissioner of the Professional Regulation Commission for publication at least thirty days before the date of examination.
• A graduate from another paramedical profession who has been actually performing medical technology for the last five years prior to the date of the examination, if such performance began prior to the enactment of this Act, is eligible to take the examination.
• The Board may change, add to or remove from the list of subjects or weights above as progress in the science of Medical Technology may require, subject to the prior approval of the Professional Regulation Commission, and publication of the change or amendment at least three months prior to the date of examination in which the same is to take effect.
• A certificate of registration without examination is issued to persons who graduated with a BSMT/BSH in duly recognized schools of medical technology in the Philippines or foreign countries who have been in the practice of medical technology, for at least three years prior to the filing of the application.
• All certificates shall be signed by the members of the Board and by the Commissioner of the Professional Regulation Commission.
• A graduate from another profession who has been actually performing medical technology for the last five years prior to the date of the examination, if such performance began prior to June 21, 1969, is eligible to take the examination.
• Other persons who having graduated from other paramedical professions are already civil service eligible by authority of the other Boards of profession and who have been actually performing medical technology practice for the last five years prior to the filing of the application are also eligible to take the examination.
• The Board prepares the schedule of subjects for examination and submits the same to the Commissioner of Civil Service for publication at least four months before the date of examination.
• Section 21 of R.A 5527 allows for the issuance of a Certificate of Registration without examination to persons who graduated with a BSMT/ BSH in duly recognized schools of medical technology in the Philippines or foreign countries and have been in the practice of medical technology for at least three years at the time of the passage of this Act.
• A person who has completed a course of at least four years leading to the degree of Bachelor of Science in Medical Technology or Bachelor of Science in Hygiene is qualified to be an examiner.