LIC Registers 100% Passing Rate in August 2005 Medicine Board Exam

LIC now boasts of having three more doctors of medicine in its fold, registering a 100% passing rate in the recent physician licensure examinations.Joining the country's 1,741 new physicians are Charlemagne G. Aguinaldo, Carlo Emmanuel V. Garduque, and Michael Andrew Rezah M. Narag.LIC's passing rate is way higher than the national passing rate of 51%. All three LIC examinees were expected to pass the exam with flying colors, considering the group produced most of UST High School's honor students in 1996.Messrs. Aguinaldo and Garduque dominated their medical technology batch, with the former ending up as a topnotcher in the medical technology licensure examination and the latter graduating magna cum laude from the UST Faculty of Pharmacy.Messrs. Aguinaldo, Garduque, and Narag join Melanie Y. Marino in LIC's roster of physicians. An alumna of UST's accelerated biology program, Ms. Marino passed the medicine board last year.They also join former UST High School Student Council President John Dale M. Hizon, who likewise passed the August physician exam, in the list of licensed doctors produced by St. Dominic Batch 1996.LIC also boasts of licensed electronics and communications engineers: Jimmy Angeles, Jayson Bernard Orque, Fruijeirah M. Sharief and Roderick P. Siccion. -Reported by Adrian R. Montemayor and Felipe F. Salvosa II List of successful examinees from LIC: 40 AGUINALDO, CHARLEMAGNE DE GUZMAN 614 GARDUQUE, CARLO EMMANUEL VALENTE 939 NARAG, MICHAEL ANDREW REZAH MARZAN Tags: medicine, lic, thomasian, doctormagnus