All 37 examinees from Silliman University Medical School passed the October 2026 Physician Licensure Examination, placing the Dumaguete school on the Professional Regulation Commission's list of top-performing schools.
DUMAGUETE CITY — Silliman University (SU) posted a 100 percent passing rate in the October 2026 Physician Licensure Examination (PLE). All 37 of its examinees passed, according to results released by the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) on Thursday, October 15.
Because of this result, SU was listed among the top-performing schools in the category for schools with 25 to 49 examinees and a 100 percent passing rate. The list follows PRC Commission Resolution No. 1814, Series of 2024.
According to PRC's Performance of Schools report, all 31 of Silliman's first-time takers and all six of its repeat examinees passed.
National results
Nationwide, 4,165 of 4,447 examinees passed the exam, a national passing rate of 93.66 percent. The PRC withheld two results: one pending final determination of the examinee's liabilities under licensure rules, and one pending submission of required documents.
The Board of Medicine gave the exam on October 3, 4, 10 and 11, 2026, in Metro Manila, Baguio, Cagayan de Oro, Cebu, Davao, Iloilo, Koronadal, Legazpi, Lucena, Pampanga, Rosales, Tacloban, Tuguegarao and Zamboanga. Results came out four working days after the last day of the exam.
Maxine Francesco Gwyneth Cena Baculo of the University of Santo Tomas (UST) placed first, with a rating of 95.50 percent.
Other top-performing schools
Five schools with at least 100 examinees posted perfect passing rates, led in number by UST with 312 examinees:
- University of Santo Tomas, 312 examinees
- University of the Philippines Manila, 174
- University of the East Ramon Magsaysay Memorial Medical Center, 161
- Ateneo School of Medicine and Public Health, 136
- West Visayas State University in La Paz, 100
How Visayas medical schools fared
Silliman was the only Negros Oriental school with examinees in the October 2026 exam. Results of other Visayas medical schools with at least five examinees, in alphabetical order, according to PRC's Performance of Schools report:
- Cebu Doctors' University College of Medicine: 47 of 48 (97.92 percent)
- Cebu Institute of Medicine: 50 of 50 (100 percent)
- Central Philippine University (Iloilo): 52 of 56 (92.86 percent)
- Doña Remedios Trinidad-Romualdez Educational Foundation (Tacloban): 47 of 54 (87.04 percent)
- Gullas College of Medicine (Cebu): 72 of 114 (63.16 percent)
- Iloilo Doctors' College of Medicine: 50 of 52 (96.15 percent)
- Matias H. Aznar Memorial College of Medicine (Cebu): 139 of 172 (80.81 percent)
- Southwestern University (Cebu): 76 of 85 (89.41 percent)
- University of Cebu College of Medicine Foundation (Mandaue): 49 of 49 (100 percent)
- University of Saint La Salle (Bacolod): 33 of 36 (91.67 percent)
- University of the Philippines School of Health Sciences (Leyte): 8 of 9 (88.89 percent)
- West Visayas State University (La Paz, Iloilo): 100 of 100 (100 percent)
No examinee from a Visayas school placed in the top 10.
Silliman's track record
This is not SU Medical School's first perfect board result. According to the university, its first batch of graduates took the physician board exam in 2010 and all of them passed, giving the school its first 100 percent passing rate.
The medical school is an academic unit of Silliman University in Dumaguete City. Its partner hospital is the Silliman University Medical Center.
The new physicians may register with the PRC and take their oath as licensed doctors under the schedule the commission will announce.