In 1957 , the UE College of Medicine was renamed the " University of the East Ramon Magsaysay Memorial Medical Center " ( UERMMMC ) as a tribute to the late President Ramon Magsaysay who died in a plane crash in Cebu . The Medical School had its first graduates in 1961 . Dr. Juan S. Salcedo , Jr. , former Secretary of Health and Dean of the Graduate School of the University of the Philippines , was proposed to be the first dean of the College of Medicine . He , however , still had commitments to UP and recommended Dr. Jose Mangahas Cuyegkeng to be the acting dean until 1958
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1957 Cebu Douglas C-47 crash
University of the East Ramon Magsaysay Memorial Medical Center