On 19 October 2024, the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) announced the top-performing schools in the October 2024 Physician Licensure Examination (PLE) given by the Board of Medicine. Saint Louis University locked Rank 9 among the Top-Performing Schools nationwide with a 83.23% passing rate (129 passers out of 155 examinees), marking yet another significant milestone of the SLU School of Medicine (SOM).
Further, according to PRC, a total of 3,845 out of 6,600 (58.26%) passed the said PLE.
The second Physician board exam this year was held in the cities of Manila, Baguio, Cagayan De Oro, Cebu, Davao, Iloilo, Legazpi, Lucena, Pampanga, Rosales, Tacloban, Tuguegarao and Zamboanga on 5, 6, 12, and 13 October 2024.