Cebu Doctors' University, abbreviated as CDU, is a private university located in Mandaue City, Cebu, Philippines. Founded in 1973 at Cebu City as Cebu Doctors' College, the school was formally renamed in 2005 as Cebu Doctors' University. It is organized into eight colleges, a Graduate school, and as of 2016, a Senior High school. Cebu Doctors' University consistently ranks among the top and prestigious medical universities in the Philippines based on the National Licensure Examinations. It is the only private institution in the Philippines granted a University Status without having basic education curriculum and catering mainly to courses related to the health services field. It is the first non-sectarian university in the Visayas to be granted the Autonomous Status, the highest status a university can get from the Commission on Higher Education.
Brief history
Cebu Doctors' University was organized in 1973 as Cebu Doctors' College and was registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission in 1976. Its first campus was located adjacent to the present Cebu Doctors' University Hospital. Cebu Doctors' College of Nursing, one of the first nursing colleges in Cebu, was the first College to open in 1973. Subsequently, the following colleges opened: in 1975, the Cebu Doctors' College of Arts and Sciences ; in 1977, the Cebu Doctors' College of Medicine, a non-stock, non-profit medical foundation; in 1980, the Cebu Doctors' College of Dentistry, the Cebu Doctors' College of Optometry, and the Graduate School; and in 1982, the Cebu Doctors' Institute of Allied Medical Sciences which was later renamed Cebu Doctors' College of Allied Medical Sciences. In 1992, it was reconstructed creating therefrom a separate college, the Cebu Doctors' College of Rehabilitative Sciences. In 2004, the Cebu Doctors' University College of Pharmacy was established. And in 2016, the Cebu Doctors' University Senior High School was set up under the CDU-CAS.
PBL system; associated with Cebu Doctors' University Hospital
Ranked number 8 during the September 2016 PRC Results
The CDU-CM developed the teaching modules to be used in medical schools throughout the country for the integration of domestic and family violence issues into the medical curriculum.
Its Kauswagan Community Outreach Program has won one silver and two gold HAMIS awards for excellence in health services delivery awarded by the Department of Health.
Consistent 100 percent passing rate in the National Licensure Examination for its Medical Laboratory Science Program which also produces consistent board topnotchers
The First of the two schools who offers Radiologic Technology program in the province of Cebu.
The premier PT and OT school in the South, and the first institution to offer the PT and OT programs in the Visayas and Mindanao
First PT and OT school in the Visayas to establish International linkage in the U.S. and Hong Kong
One of the five schools in the Philippines accredited by the World Federation of Occupational Therapists, and the first in the Visayas and Mindanao to receive OT program accreditation by the Occupational Therapy Association of the Philippines
Consistent high ranking and Board topnotchers in the National Licensure Examinations for PT, OT, and RTp, with passing percentages above the national mark
Students are admitted on the basis of their individual qualifications, regardless of sex, religion or race. CDU, especially the College offering a certain course offering, requires evidence of general competence, motivation, and capability. Aside from grades and test scores, preference shall be given to those who are properly motivated evincing an interest to learn, and have consistently demonstrated a genuine concern to follow CDU's standards.
Campus facilities
Library
The Cebu Doctors' University has two libraries, namely: the Main Library, which is located on the second floor and the University Medical Library, which is found on the fifth floor of Cebu Doctors' University. The University Library caters to the needs of all students of Cebu Doctors' University, except those of the College of Medicine, the latter having its own library.
