TY - BOOK AU - Eduarte, Ashley Katherine. TI - Tracer study of Manila Doctors College nursing graduates on selected hospitals in Metro Manila: perspectives towards improved alumni relation PY - 2008/// KW - Alumni and alumnae KW - Employment KW - Universities and colleges N1 - General Education N2 - Manila Doctors College was founded and formally inaugurated during the 19th anniversary celebration of the Manila Doctors Hospital in 1975 and first known as the MDH School of Nursing. Initially offering a three-year Graduate Nursing course, the first batch of 154 freshmen qualified from about 500 applicants. Out of this number, 130 qualified for the sophomore year. In 1978, the first batch of graduates of this program, now numbering only 118 because of the College's selective retention policy, took the government board examination, in which one of its graduates landed in 8th place. In the same year, a permit to offer the four-year B.S. Nursing course and the four-year Liberal Arts course was granted by the Department of Education ER -