by Audrey Prieto
[ANGELO KING AUDITORIUM, SLCM] St. Luke’s College of Medicine challenged their outstanding students in a competitive battle of wits during the First SLCM Quiz Bee held last August 8, 2014.
Among over 70 supportive students were a handful of guest doctors including Dra. Atienza, Dra. Ramos, and Dr. Dayrit.
Heading this event was the academics committee, who began planning months ago, prior to the start of school.
According to Ceslie Cruz, chair of the academics committee, students were previously hand-picked to participate for MSS Quiz Bee, an event held annually as part of an inter-medical school competitive event for the Association of Philippine Medical Colleges.
However, the establishment of committees by the SLCM Student Council led to the acquisition of enough staff to achieve larger projects such as the Quiz Bee, which is a more dynamic avenue in picking this year’s MSS Quiz Bee contestants.
Cruz stated that their biggest challenge was collecting the questions used for the trivia from the faculty because of the busy schedules of the doctors.
The Quiz Bee was setup with teams of three answering questions consisted of multiple choice questions, identification questions, and calculations, but no calculators were allowed.
The host read each question twice before dispatching a ‘go’ signal for when each team could discuss and write their answer on provided paper.
A proctor would then check the answers of each team and points would be distributed. Teams could appeal answers to the panel of judges, which occurred three times throughout the night.
There were three rounds of ten questions: an easy, average, and hard round, worth one, three, and five points respectively, with incorrect answers merit no points or deductions.
Teams were given 20 seconds to answer the easy round with 10 second increases in each the average and the hard rounds.
Questions were pulled from the topics of biochemistry, medicine, surgery, medical ethics, physiology, ophthalmology, pharmacology, pediatrics, pathology, orthopedics, ENT, preventative and community medicine, and neurology in no particular order.
As scores were calculated, the audience engaged in a trivia game of their own with SLCM prizes.
Winners were then called to stage and given medals.
After three rounds of grueling questions, Team H, consisting of first year’s Nadine Caballes, second year’s Felice Gonzales, and third year’s Aprille Octaviano , won with 61 points out of a possible 90 points.
The first runners up with 58 points was Team F including Lei Anne Joy Bautista, Rolando Lagunzad Jr., and Leah Anne Legaspi.
Only one point behind, the second runners up was Team J with Christine Lua, Ma. Paula Delmendo, and Ma. Eda Manatad.
The first and second place teams will be sent to represent SLCM in the 9th annual Medical Students Summit (MSS) Regional Quiz Bee in San Beda College, Mendalla Manila.
Topping off the night was a congratulations by SLCM Student Council member Junelle Dumangon who summarized, “Quiz bee aims to showcase mental promise of students despite the pressure…[it] truly make us proud to be in this institution rubbing elbows with the best of the best”.
Student Council asks for support in the upcoming Medical Student Summit Quiz Bee and invites all students to aim to compete in next year’s Quiz Bee.
[ANGELO KING AUDITORIUM, SLCM] St. Luke’s College of Medicine challenged their outstanding students in a competitive battle of wits during the First SLCM Quiz Bee held last August 8, 2014.
Among over 70 supportive students were a handful of guest doctors including Dra. Atienza, Dra. Ramos, and Dr. Dayrit.
Heading this event was the academics committee, who began planning months ago, prior to the start of school.
According to Ceslie Cruz, chair of the academics committee, students were previously hand-picked to participate for MSS Quiz Bee, an event held annually as part of an inter-medical school competitive event for the Association of Philippine Medical Colleges.
However, the establishment of committees by the SLCM Student Council led to the acquisition of enough staff to achieve larger projects such as the Quiz Bee, which is a more dynamic avenue in picking this year’s MSS Quiz Bee contestants.
Cruz stated that their biggest challenge was collecting the questions used for the trivia from the faculty because of the busy schedules of the doctors.
The Quiz Bee was setup with teams of three answering questions consisted of multiple choice questions, identification questions, and calculations, but no calculators were allowed.
The host read each question twice before dispatching a ‘go’ signal for when each team could discuss and write their answer on provided paper.
A proctor would then check the answers of each team and points would be distributed. Teams could appeal answers to the panel of judges, which occurred three times throughout the night.
There were three rounds of ten questions: an easy, average, and hard round, worth one, three, and five points respectively, with incorrect answers merit no points or deductions.
Teams were given 20 seconds to answer the easy round with 10 second increases in each the average and the hard rounds.
Questions were pulled from the topics of biochemistry, medicine, surgery, medical ethics, physiology, ophthalmology, pharmacology, pediatrics, pathology, orthopedics, ENT, preventative and community medicine, and neurology in no particular order.
As scores were calculated, the audience engaged in a trivia game of their own with SLCM prizes.
Winners were then called to stage and given medals.
After three rounds of grueling questions, Team H, consisting of first year’s Nadine Caballes, second year’s Felice Gonzales, and third year’s Aprille Octaviano , won with 61 points out of a possible 90 points.
The first runners up with 58 points was Team F including Lei Anne Joy Bautista, Rolando Lagunzad Jr., and Leah Anne Legaspi.
Only one point behind, the second runners up was Team J with Christine Lua, Ma. Paula Delmendo, and Ma. Eda Manatad.
The first and second place teams will be sent to represent SLCM in the 9th annual Medical Students Summit (MSS) Regional Quiz Bee in San Beda College, Mendalla Manila.
Topping off the night was a congratulations by SLCM Student Council member Junelle Dumangon who summarized, “Quiz bee aims to showcase mental promise of students despite the pressure…[it] truly make us proud to be in this institution rubbing elbows with the best of the best”.
Student Council asks for support in the upcoming Medical Student Summit Quiz Bee and invites all students to aim to compete in next year’s Quiz Bee.