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2/24/2026- Medical Grand Rounds: Adis Muchacho, Hello Nurse: Efficiency at the Philippine General Hospital, 1898-1916

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INTRODUCTION

Credit Hours: 1.00

Target Audience:

Faculty, residents, fellows, and community physicians in General Internal Medicine and subspecialties.

Educational Objectives:

Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:

  • Raise awareness about the social, cultural, and political construction of medicine to critically assess the advances and harms of medical knowledge and professionalization 
  • Describe the interlocking of systems of oppressions to understand its intangible impact on the bodies and minds of historically underrepresented groups
  • Analyze the historical legacy of U.S. colonization in the Philippines to apply this understanding when reflecting on contemporary issues in the global healthcare arena.
  • Apply historical research methods in healthcare to inform actions that promote change, social justice, and health equity at the bedside and within broader health systems.

Suggested Additional Reading :

  • Anderson, Warwick. Colonial Pathologies: American Tropical Medicine, Race, and Hygiene in the Philippines. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006. 
  • Choy, Catherine Ceniza. Empire of Care: Nursing and Migration in Filipino American History. Durham: Duke University Press, 2003. 
  • Geronimus, Arline T. Weathering: The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society. New York: Little, Brown Spark, 2023.
  • Nadasen, Premilla. Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism. Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2023.
  • Nishida, Akemi. Just Care: Messy Entanglements of Disability, Dependency, and Desire. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2022. 

Authors:
Reynaldo (Ren) Capucao, MSN, RN, PhD — Eleanor Crowder Bjoring Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry at the University of Virginia School of Nursing
No relationships with industry relevant to the content of this educational activity have been disclosed.
No other members of the planning committee, speakers, presenters, authors, content reviewers and/or anyone else in a position to control the content of this education activity have relevant financial relationships with any companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

In support of improving patient care, the University of Pittsburgh is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Physician (CME)
The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine designates this enduring material activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Each physician should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Other health care professionals will receive a certificate of attendance confirming the number of contact hours commensurate with the extent of participation in this activity.

The University of Pittsburgh is an affirmative action, equal opportunity institution.