REPUBLIC ACT NO. 1887 - AN ACT TO AMEND SECTIONS ONE AND FOUR OF REPUBLIC ACT NUMBERED TWELVE HUNDRED AND FORTY-THREE IN ORDER TO PROVIDE FOR THE TENURE OF OFFICE OF HOSPITAL RESIDENTS IN HOSPITALS UNDER THE CONTROL AND ADMINISTRATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF NATIONAL DEFENSE.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress assembled:

SECTION 1. Sections one and four of Republic Act Numbered Twelve hundred and forty-three are hereby amended to read as follows:

"SECTION 1. Physicians appointed for hospital residency other than senior residency in any training hospital under the Department of Health and Department of National Defense must be duly licensed physicians who have graduated from recognized medical schools. They shall be appointed for a period of one year, renewable every yea in the discretion of the Secretary of Health or Secretary of National Defense as the case may be: Provided, however, That the total duration of their appointments shall not exceed a period of three years: Provided, further, That in the computation of the three-year period, the period time during which the appointee may have served resident in any clinical department or section of any government training hospital shall be included. Provided, lastly, That this three-year limitation shall apply only to all appointment for residency hereinafter made.

"SEC. 4. The Secretary of Health and the Secretary of National Defense are authorized under this Act to designate the medical training hospitals under their respective departments." SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved, June 22, 1957.