• To maintain the highest standards of surgical practice
• To coordinate with medical schools and hospitals in maintaining a high standard of medical and surgical education and training.
• To foster a program of surgical research
• To safeguard the professional interests and welfare of its member surgeons
• To assist in health care program of the national agencies
• To cultivate among its fellows the spirit of cordiality and brotherhood.

MISSION STATEMENT:
The Brokenshire Hospital Surgical Residency Training Program is committed to train competent, compassionate, and ethical resident physicians in General Surgery and to provide an organized educational program with guidance and supervision of the resident, facilitating the resident’s professional and personal development while ensuring safe and appropriate care for patients. Our graduates are prepared for community or academic practice and are recognized as both medical and community leaders.

CORE VALUES:
Our Community
Our faculty is dedicated to our educational mission and the professional and personal development of our residents. Our faculty accepts overall responsibility for patient care and strives for excellence in teaching and research.

Our residents are dedicated to the pursuit of surgical skill, knowledge, and judgment. Our residents are both learners and teachers, and accept an appropriate level of responsibility for patient care and for the education of more junior residents and medical students.

The Curriculum
Our faculty develops a curriculum that meets national standards for surgical education. Our program will provide the framework for optimal surgical training and will respect the personal development and family responsibilities of our residents.

Professional Relationship
Educational achievement occurs in an atmosphere of mutual respect. Our faculty and residents are professional colleagues in partnership for the pursuit of excellence. We provide and accept both constructive criticism and recognition of achievement.

Diversity
We embrace the value of diversity in our professional community. We acknowledge the unique strengths and weaknesses of each of our colleagues. We strive to meet the educational and personal needs of our trainees while emphasizing the high standards expected of our profession.

Leadership
Our community recognizes the leadership role of the Chief Resident, who serves as a role model for more junior residents and medical students. We foster the development and leadership skills of all physicians who train in our community. We expect our residents to participate in the governance of the residency program commensurate with their level of training.

GOALS
1. To provide an organized and structured program of surgical training, which will prepare resident physicians for certification by the Philippine Board of Surgery, fellowship in Philippine College of Surgeons and the Philippine Society of General Surgeons, for the practice of the specialty of General Surgery.

2. To provide residents in training the opportunity to develop personal, clinical and professional competence under the guidance and careful supervision of the faculty and staff.

3. To emphasize the safe, appropriate, competent, ethical and humane care of patients.

4. To provide training for physicians who are accepted into residency training programs requiring or accepting one or more years of prerequisite surgical experience.

5. To provide short-term training opportunities for selected resident physicians from other residency training programs requiring prerequisite surgical experience to physicians who will continue training in the other Medical/Surgical specialties.