Tau Mu Sigma Phi and Sigma Tau Delta are set to hold the 7th UST Medwards on November 24, 2017, at the UST Medicine Auditorium.
The interdepartmental variety show and charity event has become a yearly avenue for the students to reflect on the heart of Medical Education, which are the very patients that they have sought to treat through education. For its 7th year, the MedWards have raised around 350,000-400,000 php worth of charitable donations to the wards of the UST Hospital.
Brainchild of Bro. Dr. Jeff Willis Asuncion Maniquis, the current Anaesthesiology chief resident of the University of Santo Tomas Hospital, together with the efforts of Bro. Dr. Richardson Beltran Lorilla of the Tau Mu Sigma Phi Fraternity, and with Sis. Dr. Joyce Karla Segui Suero and Sis Dr. Erika Lourdes Mercado Adajar of the Sigma Tau Delta Sorority, it has become a staple of the UST Medical student experience, creating memorable performances, engaging routines, and fond recollections, which are all jam-packed to show the dynamism of not only Thomasian medical students, but also of its faculty members, administration, and support staff.
Events such as the Medwards have persisted throughout the years, all of whom have held on their own to shape the young minds of the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery’s young doctors. To rigidly equate fraternities and sororities to just connections and bonds of kinship is similar to equating the study of medicine to just books and quizzes.To disassociate these organizations to a bygone era of violence, we look to Tau Mu Sigma Phi and Sigma Tau Delta, who are trailblazers like in UST Medicine, an institution among institutions, founded on the shared values of Academic Excellence, Leadership, and Service, to serve as a blueprint of what a true fraternity and sorority should look like in the modern era.