A DABAWENYO is one of three topnotchers of the 2020 Physician Licensure Examination (PLE) that was held in March and September, according to the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC).

Results released by PRC showed that Dhona Cambronero of Davao Medical School Foundation (DMSF) scored an 87.92-percent passing rate, making her the only graduate from a medical school in Mindanao to be in the top 10.

DMSF, the lone school in Davao Region in the PLE, garnered an 84.21-percent school performance rate wherein 16 out of the 19 takers passed.

PRC announced that 800 out of 1,424 passed the Physician Licensure Examination given by the Board of Medicine in the cities of Manila, Baguio, Cagayan De Oro, Cebu, Davao, Iloilo, Legazpi, Tacloban, Tuguegarao and Zamboanga in March and September 2020.

The first part of the Physician Licensure Examination was held in March 2020. The second part was allowed to push through in September by the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases due to the demand for additional physicians.

Maria Carla Buenaflor of the University of the Philippines got an 89.17 percent rating to lead the 800 passers out of the 1,424 PLE examinees.

She was followed by John Marlon Lintan of the University of Santo Tomas with 88 percent.

Also making the top 10 are Cambronero James Daniel Umalin of De La Salle Medical and Health Science Institute (87.75 percent), and Gremory Dennis Idago of St. Luke's Medical Center College of Medicine (87.58 percent), Charles Vanhill Raksham of De La Salle Medical and Health Science Institute (87.17 percent), Erika Anne Pangan of the University of Santo Tomas (87.08 percent), April Jean Gapo of Southwestern University (87 percent), Jessah April Naingue of Southwestern University (86.83 percent), and Carren Emirose Solidor of Southwestern University (86.67 percent).