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Bohol
hits the limelight anew when a 26-year old Tagbilaran
born consistent scholar emerged to top the medical board
exams.
Edilfavia
Mae Suaybaguio Uy is the first Boholana to top the doctors
licensure examination. She is the eldest daughter of
businessman Edilfonso Uy and the former Favia Suaybaguio,
who was one of the board topnotchers for Pharmacy during
her schooldays. She is the grand daughter of the late
Boholano banker Alfonso and Paz Uy. Alfonso was the
founder of First Consolidated Bank (FCB).
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Her
topping the board became a "hot news item" not only
in the province but in Cebu as well as it was the first for
a Cebu medical school to top the medical board exam. Uy who
is a graduate of Cebu Doctor's University College of Medicine
garnered a rating of 86.33% to top the physicians' licensure
test given by the Professional Regulations Commission (PRC).
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Uy
was a consistent honor student. She graduated valedictorian
from both elementary and high school at the Bohol Wisdom
School. She took up Psychology at Cebu Doctor's University
where she graduated magna cum laude. She was a scholar
in said school where she studied medicine. She graduated
cum laude with 18 medals.
During
a radio interview, Uy said she thought of becoming a
doctor because she was sickly as a child and she liked
the doctors' white uniforms.
"I
like to serve people when I get older," Uy recalled
while admitting that she wanted to become a doctor since
she was in kindergarten. However, not in her wildest
dream to top a medical board exam.
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She
vowed to serve the country as a physician after she will pursue
to specialize in internal medicine and plans to avail of training
in the United States.
The
parents of "Mayique" as she is fondly called said
they attribute their daughter's success to hard work and her
faith in God.
"We're
very much happy of her being prayerful," the parents
confided saying that their daughter maintains the devotion
to St. Jude and St. Joseph of Cupertino. In fact, by special
request, she requested that her thanksgiving prayer to these
two saints be printed elsewhere in this issue.
Uy,
along with other board passers that include her boyfriend
Noel Icamuna, started attending thanksgiving masses since
last Friday at various churches in Cebu City. She plans to
go to nine churches "to thank the Lord for this blessing."
Her
brother, Ian, 24, graduated valedictorian from both elementary
and high school and passed the board examination for electronics
and communications engineer. Her sister, Maia, 20, who is
taking up respiratory therapy at the Cebu Doctor's University,
is on the Dean's List.
The
first Boholana medic board topnotcher is expected to get a
rousing welcome when she comes home this week from Cebu City.
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