1,901 Added to Phl's Medical Roster - PRC

The country's health care workforce just expanded with the addition of almost 2,000 newly licensed doctors who successfully passed the March 2025 Physicians Licensure Examination (PLE), the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) announced.

- By MAYEN JAYMALIN

Out of the 3,827 examinees, 1,901 passed the PLE administered in the cities of Baguio, Cagayan de Oro, Cebu, Davao, Legazpi, Iloilo, Lucena, Pampanga, Rosales, Tacloban, Tuguegarao and Zamboanga.

Adrian Go, a graduate of Cebu Institute of Medicine, topped the examination with a score of 87.75 percent. He was followed by Joseph Benjamin Perez of the University of Santo Tomas, who earned a score of 87.25 percent.