MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY LAWS

• Professional Ethics


  The principles that govern a person's behavior in the workplace or work environment
• Code of Ethics

  • Works on the principle "treating others the way we would like to be treated"
  • Professionals shall "observe confidentiality"
  • Helps direct decision-making in solving ethical problems and deciding on ethical dilemmas
• Codes of Conduct


  • Provide the action to codes of ethics and serve to apply the codes of ethics to particular and relevant situations
  • Provide a list of guidelines or conditions in implementing confidentiality
• Professional Codes of Conduct


  • Based on professional ethical principles such as honesty, trustworthiness, loyalty, respect for others, adherence to the law, doing good, avoiding harm to others, and accountability
• Professional Codes of Conduct Benefits


  • Build confidence in the profession's trustworthiness
  • Provide greater transparency and certainty about how client's affairs will be handled
  • Provide a supporting framework to the members of the profession, for resisting pressure to act inappropriately, and for making acceptable decisions in what may be "grey areas"
  • Provide a common understanding of acceptable practice which builds collegiality and allows for fairer disciplinary procedures within the profession
  • Will benefit others dealing with the profession, as the profession will be seen as more reliable and easier to deal with
• General Principle of Professional Conduct


  Professionals are required to have an ethical commitment, a personal resolve to act ethically, and to have both ethical awareness and ethical competency
• Ethical Awareness


  Refers to the ability to discern between right and wrong and demonstrate ethical competency which is the ability to apply sound and moral reasoning
• Ethical Competency


  Pertains to the ability to engage in sound moral reasoning and consider carefully the implications of alternative actions
• Specific Principles of Professional Conduct


  • Service to Others
  • Integrity and Objectivity
  • Professional Competence
  • Solidarity and Teamwork
  • Social and Civic Responsibility
  • Global Competitiveness
  • Equality of all professions
• Service to Others


  Professionals are committed to a life of service to others, protect life, property, and public welfare, and shall be prepared for heroic sacrifice and genuine selflessness in carrying out their professional duties even at the expense of personal gain
• Integrity and Objectivity


  To maintain and broaden public confidence, professionals shall perform their responsibilities with the highest sense of integrity and imbued with nationalism and spiritual values
• Professional Competence


  Professionals shall undertake only those professional services that they can reasonably deliver with professional competence
• Solidarity and Teamwork


  Each profession shall nurture and support one organization for all its members, and through a deep spirit of solidarity, each member should put the broader interest of the profession above one's personal ambition and preference
• Social and Civic Responsibility


  They shall serve their clients/employers and the public with professional concern and in a manner consistent with their responsibilities to society
• Global Competitiveness


  Every professional shall remain open to more challenges of a more dynamic interconnected world
• Equality of all professions


  All professionals perform an equally important, yet distinct, service to society, and therefore, everyone shall treat one another with respect and fairness
• Code of Ethics


  Value statements, provides guidance about values and choices, enables one to make an independent judgement, wide-ranging and non-specific
• Code of Conduct


  Applies the Code of Ethics to relevant situations, outlines specific behaviors that are required or prohibited, affects action, require little judgment since one either obeys or incurs a penalty, provides a clear set of expectations about which actions are required, acceptable, or prohibited
• RA 6713 is the Code of Conduct and Ethical Standards for Public Officials and Employees
• Purpose of RA 6713


  To respect the rights of others at all times and to refrain from doing acts contrary to law, morals, or customs
• Importance of RA 6713


  Public officials and employees shall at all times be accountable to the people and shall discharge their duties with utmost responsibility, integrity, competence, and loyalty, act with patriotism and justice, lead modest lives, and uphold public interest over personal interest
• RA 5527 is the Philippine Medical Technology Act of 1969
• Venues for RA 5527

  • Manila
  • Cebu
  • Davao
  • Baguio
  • Iloilo
  • Tacloban
  • Tuguegarao
  • Zamboanga
• Schedule for RA 5527


  • August/September and March
• Amendments to RA 5527


  • Republic Act No. 6183 (1970)
  • Presidential Decree No. 498 (1974)
  • Presidential Decree No. 1534 (1978)
• RA 6138 is an act to amend certain sections of RA 5527, known as the Philippine Medical Technology Act of 1969
• PD 498 amended 11 sections of the original RA 5527 law
• SBN 2722 (15th Congress) is a proposed amendment to RA 5527, known as the Philippine Medical Technology Act of 2011
• HB 3502 (16th Congress) is a proposed amendment to RA 5527, known as the Philippine Medical Technology Act
• SBN 2473 (16th Congress) is a proposed amendment to RA 5527, known as the Philippine Medical Technology Act of 2014
• HB 2049 (17th Congress) is a proposed amendment to RA 5527, addressing topics such as the creation of a Medical Technology Board, expansion of the scope of medical technology practice, and creation of a Technical Committee and Continuing Professional Development Council
• SBN 1891 (17th Congress) is a proposed amendment to RA 5527, known as the Philippine Medical Technology Act of 2018
• SBN 2007 (19th Congress) is a proposed amendment to RA 5527, known as the Philippine Medical Technology Act of 2023
• SBN 2503 (19th Congress) is a proposed amendment to RA 5527, known as the Philippine Medical Technology Act of 2023
• Medical Technologist Prayer: 'By Thy divine wisdom, awaken in us a growing zeal and determination to increase our knowledge of how to search for the underlying causes of sickness and disease; how to recognize the evidence of physical changes; how to make important chemical analyses, and other valuable test so helpful in caring for the sick. By Thy divine love, permit us in this way to share with those who directly care for the sick, which thus we may be constantly working through the eternal physician, Christ our Lord, Amen.'
• RA 4688 is the Clinical Laboratory Law of 1966