I will share in this presentation my journey as an MD-PhD in Molecular Medicine student. Get to know the different things that I do inside and outside the medical school. Learn also how you can maximize your potential as a medical student / MD-PhD student.

1. The Different Hats
I Wear:
More than just an MD-PhD student!
Ourlad Alzeus G. Tantengco
MD-PhD Molecular Medicine Student,
Batch 5

2. 1. MD-PhD Student
(medical student and
researcher)

3. Faculty Research Grant 2015
Ethnomycological survey and functional bioactivity
screening of macrofungi utilized by Ayta communities in
Dinalupihan, Bataan
Faculty Research Grant 2017
Ethnobotanical survey and antimicrobial screening of
medicinal plants used by Eskaya healers in Bohol,
Philippines
Research Collaboration & Research Funding

4. UPM NIH Student Research Grant 2016
• Ethnobotanical survey and functional bioactivity screening of medicinal plants used by Ayta communities in
Dinalupihan, Bataan
• Adviser: Prof. Elena M. Ragragio
UPM NIH Student Research Grant 2017
• Garcinia binucao crude ethanolic leaf extract prevents alcohol-induced neurotoxic effects on learning, short-
term memory, and motor functions in Drosophila melanogaster
• Garcinia binucao crude leaf extract protects Drosophila melanogaster from lifespan reduction due to chronic
alcohol exposure
• Advisers: Dr. Paul Mark Medina, Dr. Ma. Concepcion Sison, Dr. Raymond Oliva
UPM NIH Student Research Grant 2018
• Co-infection of human papillomavirus and other sexually transmitted infections among cervical cancer patients
in a tertiary hospital in the Philippines
• PIK3CA and MDM2 gene mutation analysis in Filipino patients with cervical squamous cell carcinoma
• Advisers: Dr. Erlidia Llamas-Clark, Dr. Itaru Yanagihara
Research Collaboration & Research Funding

5. Research Training Abroad

6. First Prize. Annual Student
Research Poster Contest. Philippine
Academy of Family Physicians 57th
Anniversary and Annual
Convention
First Prize. Poster and Oral Research
Contest. 28th Philippine Society of
Experimental and Clinical
Pharmacology Annual Convention
Research Presentations (Local and International)
First Place. Applied Science and
Biotechnology Category Oral
Presentation. 21st Biological Sciences
Graduate Congress. Malaysia

7. Class of 1986 and Department of
Clinical Epidemiology
Outstanding Student Research
Publication Award 2016
Research Presentations (Local and International)
Best Research Oral Presenter. 5th
National Conference, Restoration
Ecology Society of the Philippines
Saving the Cordilleras Ecosystem
Network, Inc.
Five Best Research Submissions
and Oral Presenters. Research
Competition. 1st Philippine
Herbal Medicine Summit.

8. I am not just a member of
the MD-PhD community,
I am a stakeholder

9. 2. Research Mentor

10. Co-adviser to BS Biology
Thesis Students with Prof.
Elena M. Ragragio

11. Co-adviser to BS Biology Thesis Students with Dr.
Paul Medina

12. Teaching research methods to students and teachers in Bataan

13. Learning by teaching others is
extremely effective. You master
what you teach.

14. 3. Officer in Different
Organizations

15. Chairman, National Academics
and Research Committee
AY 2016-2017

17. VP for External Affairs
AY 2017-2018

18. President
AY 2017-2018

19. Though one may be overpowered,
two can defend themselves. A cord
of three strands is not quickly
broken - Ecclesiastes 4:12

20. 4. Health Blogger and
Healthcare Social
Media Advocate

21. Healthcare in Social Media Mentors
Dr. Iris Isip-Tan Dr. Willie Ong Dr. Liza Ong

24. Invited by DOST PCHRD
as Evaluator for the Best
Consortium Website Award

27. Whatever your passion is, do
not let medical school take it
away from you

28. 5. Coordinator for IP
Outreach Program

29. Face the Book Project is an
initiative to set up reading
corners for indigenous
children. We want to give
them hope by teaching them
how to love reading.

30. Distribution of slippers, school supplies and Noche Buena
package to Ayta students in Bataan

31. Livelihood Training in Banga-an,
Ifugao
Distribution of slippers, books and
school supplies to Ifugao students
Organized by
Prof. Dora
Balangcod of UP
Baguio

32. Always give back to the people!
#ParaSaBayan

33. When you take all the previous
hats, it will not matter. Because
at the end of the day I am
assured and secured in my
identity in Christ.

34. 6. Son, Brother, Friend

42. Do less, be more!
1. Do less of unimportant things so you can channel your
time and energy to things that really matter.
2. Learn to say no politely. If you say yes to all persons, you
let their priorities take over yours.
3. Have a clear vision. Because the clearer the vision, the
fewer the options and the easier our decisions become. -
Troy Hartman

44. Thank you very much.
God bless you!