University of Visayas - Gullas College of Medicine
In 1977, the UV Gullas College of Medicine (UVGCM) in Banilad, Mandaue City, opened its doors for education. It was set up by the family of Don Vicente Gullas and Lady Josefina R. Gullas in response to a call for more doctors to meet the country's medical and health needs. These doctors needed to be skilled, compassionate, and able to lead.
The Gullas family wanted to make it easier for kids from Visayas and Mindanao to get a good medical education close to home. The University of the Visayas, which was created in 1919 as the Visayan Institute by Don Vicente Gullas and his wife, Lady Josefina R. Gullas, has Gullas college of medicine as one of its schools.
Its buildings were destroyed during the Second World War. It reopened in 1946 in Argao, Cebu, and then moved back to its original site on Colon Street in Cebu City, which is where it is now. It was given University rank in 1948, making it the first University in Cebu. It started with only 37 students in 1919, but its graduates have gone on to do great things in government, public administration, law, engineering, architecture, medicine, nursing, accountancy, business, liberal arts, education, criminology, maritime and nautical studies, computer studies, sports, and the arts. GCM keeps the spirit of Don Vicente Gullas alive. Don Vicente Gullas was a lawyer, writer, and teacher who started the University of the Visayas. In 1977, 78 people signed up for the first year, and 35 of them finished in 1981.
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Over the years, GCM has produced people who did well on the medical board exams and who went on to be great doctors in both government and private practise. Dr. Renato Espinosa, who went to UP and was once president of the PMA, was the school's first Dean. He was in charge for 18 years. Dr. Pek Eng Lim was the second Dean. He was replaced about a year and a half later by Dr. Samuel D. Trocio, Sr. of the UP class of 1953. He was the first National President of the Philippine Society of General Surgeons (PSGS) and a National President of the Philippines Society of Anatomists (PSA). Dr. Leonard Raymund C. Cimafranca, FPPS took over as Dean in June 2007, and Dr. Ray Perez took over after him. Dr. Leopold G. Lucero was put in charge of the College after a year. Dr. Nio Ismael S. Pastor is the Dean of the College at the moment.
GCM is now run by the Gullas children. The Hon. Eduardo R. Gullas is the President, Dr. Jose R. Gullas is the Executive Vice-President, and Madame Gliceria Gullas-Lucero is the Comptroller. The grandkids are led by Dr. Gerald Anthony S. Gullas as President, Mr. Joselito F. Gullas as Executive Vice-President, and Dr. Leopold G. Lucero as Senior Vice-President/Comptroller. People of different races go to the Gullas College of Medicine. It has let students from Nepal, Taiwan, Thailand, Korea, Japan, Malaysia, Indonesia, Iran, and the United States come to study there.
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The Memorandum of Agreement GCM signed with Dr. Herald Miller Sekar, an Indian educator and businessman, in 2018 led to a large number of Indian students enrolling in its medical classes and the improvement and upgrading of its school facilities. GCM thinks that with Dr. Herald Miller's help, direction, and ideas, it will become one of the most important pillars of medical education and a centre of success in the Philippines, and hopefully in Asia and the rest of the world as well.
The moral, spiritual, and religious ideas of the Judeo-Christian heritage and the spiritual and intellectual goals of UV's founder, Don Vicente Gullas, were the inspiration for the College and what it was meant to do.
In order to fulfil its corporate purposes of teaching, research, and community service, GCM is committed to the education of men and women, to providing medical and public health services for the greater glory of God, to the eternal well-being of the people of the Philippines, and to the temporal glory of Central Visayas, especially the province and cities of Cebu.
Its historical philosophy says, "With God's inspiration as my guiding light, someday among thousands of VI and University of the Visayas students and alumni, I hope to produce Kings and Queens who will never wear crowns but shall be royals just the same; And when I shall be dead, I wish that my life will not be a story that is told – a dream that is empty and forgotten, I wish it to be a prayer, or a song of love and usefulness, even if Don Vicente R. Gullas. "The Art of Good Living". "Amor, Servitum Leadersip et Humanitas" is the concept that GCM is based on. It puts love, leadership, and helping people ahead of everything else. It thinks that a student's career should be shaped to give him a broader view of the world and prepare him for a medical job in the place of his choice.
The founding motto is, "Through our medical academic training, we will instill the essence of the medical profession in our students to make them lifelong learners and help them reach their full potentials."
