A national research program for the Philippines

For many years there has been a feeling and thinking among our medical scientist and medical research supporters that there is something fundamentally lacking in our total research activities. Several meetings and conferences have been called to crystalize and spell out our national medical research problems. All these brought out that our main problems are those of direction and more effectiveness in our research efforts. This led to the realization that what we need as a starting point is the formulation of a national medical research program for the Philippines (Author)