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GENERAL SANTOS DOCTORS’ MEDICAL SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC.
Vision
General Santos Doctors’ Medical School Foundation (GSDMSFI) is an
institution of higher learning. Its vision is to become the prime learning
institution.
Mission
The college is committed to provide an excellent learning environment that
will promote holistic development.
Core Values
Integrity, Teamwork, Excellence, Accountability, Commitment, Humility
NSTP
The NSTP Law (RA 9163) - “An Act Establishing the National Service Training
Program (NSTP) for tertiary level students, amending for the purpose
Republic Act No. 7077 and Presidential Decree No. 1706, and for other
purposes.”
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo – President of the Philippines when RA 9163 was
signed
Fraklin Drilon – Senate President of the Congress when RA 9163 was signed
Renato “Campañero” Cayetano – RA 9163 law’s principal sponsor
National Service Training Program ACT of 2001 - aimed to enhance civic
consciousness and defense preparedness in the youth by developing the
ethics of service and patriotism, specifically designed to enhance the youth’s
active contribution to the general welfare of Filipinos.
COMPONENTS OF NSTP
1. Reserve Officer’s Training Corps [ROTC] - Institutionalized under
Section 38 and 39 of Republic Act No. 7077 that provides military
training to tertiary level students in order to motivate, train,
organize, and mobilize them for national defense preparedness.
2. Literacy Training Service [LTS] - train the students to teach literacy
and numeracy skills to school children, out-of-school youth and
other segments of society in need of their services.
3. Civic Welfare Training Service [CWTS] - refers to activities
contributory to the general welfare and the betterment of life for
the members of the community or the enhancement of its facilities,
especially those devoted to improving health, education,
environment, entrepreneurship, safety, recreation and moral of the
citizenry and other social welfare services.
Covered of NSTP Law
- All incoming freshmen students enrolled in any baccalaureate
and in at least two year technical-vocational or associate
courses
- Private higher education and technical-vocational education
institutions with at least 350 student cadets may offer ROTC
Exempted of NSTP Law
- Schools that offer military training or equivalent
Duration of NSTP components:
- two (2) semesters and is credited for the three (3) units per
semester with fifty-four (54) to ninety (90) training hours per
semester
Organization of NSTP Graduates
 Citizen Armed Forces (CAF) - Graduates of the ROTC component
 National Service Reserve Corps (NSRC) - Graduates of the non-
ROTC components: the CWTS and LTS
NSTP-CWTS Dimensions of Development
Safety and Security - It involves disaster preparedness during fire,
earthquake or other calamity that needs immediate response from any
trained civilians during emergency situations.
Education – It involves enhancement of institutional support materials and
facilities for the community and school such as providing materials
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containing basic literacy skills for pre-schoolers, alternative learning system
for out-of-school youths and adults, mathematics and science tutorials and
extended services of skilled students.
Recreation – It involves sports fest, parlor games for street children and
painting that enrich youth’s capacities to relate with one another in the
community.
Values Formation and Moral Recovery – It involves the development of
youth to be good leaders, responsible individuals imbued with good moral
values and active agent of development of the community.
Industry and Entrepreneurship – It includes programs and activities that are
vital to economic growth.
Care for Health - It aims to give knowledge on medical-related fields and
extend health services needed in the community.
Environment – It inculcates environmental awareness and its contribution
to health and related fields.
SELF – AWARENESS
Self-awareness - A clear perception of your personality, including strengths,
weaknesses, thoughts, beliefs, motivation, and emotions.
True Knowledge - It is knowing who you are, what you are in this earth for,
where you are going, and how you can get there.
Aristotle - “Knowing and understanding one’s self is the key to true
knowledge.”
Daniel Goleman - “The less aware we are of what makes us passionate, the
more lost we will be.” -
Tao Tzu - “Knowing others is wisdom but knowing yourself is enlightenment.
Self- Concept – an image of who we are.
IMPORATNCE OF SELF AWARENESS - The more you understand why you
view yourself as you do, the better you understand who you are.
Johari Window – a model use for mapping personality awareness made by
Joseph Lurt and Hurrington Ingham in 1950
FOUR SELVES THAT REPRESENTS HUMAN BEING
 Open Self – It represents all the information, behaviors, attitudes,
feelings, desires, motivations, ideas… that you know about yourself
and the other also know about you.
 Blind Self – It represents information about yourself that others
know but you do not.
 Unknown Self – It represents those parts of yourself about which
neither you nor others know.
 Hidden Self – It contains all that you know of yourself but keep
hidden from others
EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE - An ability to recognize emotions and use these
as source of human energy, information, connection and influence.
FIVE BASIC ELEMENTS OF EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
1. SELF-AWARENESS - It is knowing what the feelings are at the moment
and using preferences to guide our decision-making, having a realistic
assessment of our own abilities, and a well-grounded sense of
confidence.
2. SELF-REGULATION - It is handling our emotions so that they facilitate,
rather than interfere, with the task on hand, being conscientious and
delaying gratification in order to pursue goals or recovering well from
emotional distress.
3. MOTIVATION - It is using our deepest preferences to move, guide us
toward our goals, to help us take initiative and strive to improve, and to
persevere in the face of setbacks and frustrations.
4. EMPATHY - It is sensing what people are feeling, being able to take their
perspectives and circulating rapport and attunement with a broad
diversity of people.
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5. SOCIAL SKILLS - It is handling emotions well in relationship, accurately
reading social developments and lead in disputes for cooperation and
teamwork.
VALUES DEVELOPMENT
VALUES - It is a personal perceptions of one’s own future, relatively of the
family, works, friendship, group, community and nation as a whole.
THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK FOR VALUES DEVELOPMENT
1. Human values as ideals which determine our priorities and direct our
behaviors.
2. Human ideals as they reflect different levels of needs.
3. Human pursuit for the ultimate and highest values as they relate to
spiritual nature of man.
4. Human desire much of which is unconscious.
5. Human ideals as pursued individually and collectively.
Brian Hall - “The ideals that give significance to in our lives and reflected
through the priorities that we choose and that we act on consistently and
repeatedly”
Types of Values
Cognitive Values - It is a reality that majority of us share common value
ideals with others.
Active Values - Values that determine our priorities in the decisions that we
make and the actions that we choose repeatedly and consistently.
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
1. Self-actualization needs - realizing personal potential, self-
fulfillment, seeking personal growth and peak experiences.
2. Esteem needs - esteem for oneself and the desire for reputation or
respect from others
3. Love and belongingness needs - The need for interpersonal
relationships motivates behaviour.
4. Safety needs - protection from elements, security, order, law,
stability, freedom from fear.
5. Physiological needs - these are biological requirements for human
survival, e.g. air, food, drink, shelter, clothing, warmth, sex, sleep.
LEVELS OF VALUES
FOUNDATION VALUES - It is relate to the satisfaction of the basic or
fundamental for life to be sustained and to achieve a relative state of
health.
ULTIMATE VALUES - It means experiencing life fully, vividly, selflessly, with
full concentration and total absorption.
LIVING VALUES
 Cooperation - Using of energy of the mind to create vibrations of good
wishes and pure feelings for others and for the task. One who
cooperates receives cooperation.
 Freedom - It is a precious gift which promises an experience of
liberation and feeling of no limits as if the earth, the skies, and the seas
are at one’s service.
 Happiness - It is earned by those whose actions, attitude and attributes
are pure and selfless.
 Honesty - It is the awareness of what is right and appropriate in one’s
behavior, and one relationship.
 Humility - Removes fear and insecurity and open up the self to
universal truths.
 Love - It is not simply a desire, a passion, an intense feeling for one
person or object, but a consciousness which simultaneously selfless and
self-fulfilling.
 Peace - It consist of pure thoughts, pure feelings, and pure wishes.
 Respect - It is based on awareness of the self as a unique entity, a life
force within a spiritual being, a soul.
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 Responsibility - It is accepting what is required, to honor the role which
has been entrusted, and to perform conscientiously and to the best of
one’s ability.
 Unity - It is an harmony with and among individuals in a group.
THE GOOD CITIZENSHIP VALUES CLUSTER
I. PAGKAMAKA-DIYOS
 Faith in Almighty in Action - integrating the value of Faith in God in
different areas in daily lives by always attributing one’s efforts to
God and making Him a part of the choices and decisions that one
makes
 Respect for Life in Action - integrating the value of Respect for Life
through deeper personal reflection and consciousness practice in
daily lives by recognizing the dignity of others and appreciating the
value of the life of every person.
 Order in Action - learn to develop organization skills and time
management. Following the rules and regulations at any
establishments.
 Work in Action - personal reflection as how to value work each day.
 Concerns for the Family and Future Generations in Action -
evaluating your own family life more deeply.
 Justice in Action - to put the value of justice into action in your lives
by nurturing an attitude of vigilance and understanding of
situations.
III. PAGKAMAKA-BAYAN
 Unity in Action - be united with the nation, people, local
community, organization of work and family
 Equality in Action - encourage others to live out the value of
equality be being a good and consistent example to them
 Respect for Law and Government in Action - be a good example by
being a law-abiding and by respecting the work of the government.
 Patriotism in Action - practicing Filipino values, love for country and
do a simple acts of service to your fellowmen.
 Promotion of the Common Good in Action - actively participate in
immersion, outreach and social exposure activities.
IV. Pagkama-kalikasan
 Concern for the Environment in Action - develop a more conscious
and consistent habit of keeping your surroundings clean.

II. PAGKAMAKATAO
 Love in Action - to evaluate the way you regard and express the
value of love with people that surrounds you.
 Freedom in Action - to be responsible in your own freedom. Learn
to develop a more mature notion of freedom.
 Peace in Action - to reflect on how they have cultivated the value of
peace in your own family, work and dealing, as well as in the
manner by which they tackle issues that affect them.
 Truth in Action - cultivating in enthusiastically and sincerely
performing one’s task and role with honesty.