Medical Anecdotal Report/Reporting (MAR) 

Department of Surgery

Ospital ng Maynila Medical Center

2004 -2006

        Anecdotal Report (MAR), by an operational definition, is a brief written report on an actual medical event that involves an actual patient seen by the reporter (who may be a surgical consultant, resident, or intern).  The medical observation must have an impact on the reporter as a physician in terms of insight gained and which the reporter thinks is worth sharing with colleagues as this might help improve patient care and as part of the knowledge management system.  The insight may come in three forms, namely: a discovery; a stimulus for investigation and research; and a reinforcement or validation of previously held philosophy and principles.

        Medical Anecdotal Report is essentially a written case report. However, brevity and informality of the report will be used to differentiate it from the traditional case report.

        Starting April, 2004, Medical Anecdotal Reporting has been used in the Department of Surgery of Ospital ng Maynila Medical Center as a way of teaching and learning of medicine and surgery, more specifically, a kind of reflective learning.  It has also been incorporated in the Knowledge Management System of the Department.

        Each resident is required to submit at least one MAR per month.  The MAR would be posted in the Department’s egroup at a frequency of at least one or at most two a month.  The MAR is also be posted in the e-journal of the resident. The MAR carries a specified format.

        This website contains the 2004 -2006 compilation of MAR of the Department of Surgery of the Ospital ng Maynila Medical Center.