The John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) utilizes innovative learning methods including standardized patients, “manikin” simulations, and a tutorial-based, student-centered system called Problem-Based Learning (PBL). An orientation to the JABSOM curriculum will be held on Friday, August 24, 2012 from 1:00 p.m. until 4:00 p.m. and on Friday, December 14, 2012 from 1:00 p.m. [...]
VIDEO-Class of 2012′s Match Day Hopes and Dreams
The Class of 2012 began their studies at the University of Hawai’i’s John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) in July 2008. They marched into the Hilton Hawaiian Village Resort Ballroom carrying their short-length white coats, as they were officially welcomed into the study of medicine. Fast foward four years later, and the students — [...]
LIVE VIDEO-Match Day 2012: “The Moment”
Our MD Class of 2012 celebrates “Match Day” at the University of Hawai’i’s John A. Burns School of Medicine. Together, they open envelopes (along with some 16,000 4th-year medical students around the country today) to learn where they will spend the first years of their lives as physicians, training in specialty disciplines under “Residency Program” [...]
Match Day Essay: JABSOM student writes in Epocrates
By Darragh O’Carroll March 16th has long been a day circled on every 4th year student’s calendar (except the lucky urologists and ophthalmologists). Some say it is the day of reckoning. Some look forward to it like eager children on Christmas Eve. Whatever view we have, with the four previous years of hard work and [...]
A JABSOM FIRST: Brother & Sister become MDs together in Class of 2012
Aaron and Naomi Karlen will be the first brother and sister to graduate in the same year at the University of Hawai’i’s John A.Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM). Vice Dean Satoru Izutsu, with decades of service under his belt at the medical school, noted that fact during JABSOM’s Match Day ceremony on March 16, 2012. [...]
RESEARCH: Winners of Biomedical Symposium announced
“A great success” is how Dr. Mariana Gercheson describes April’s two-day Biomedical Symposium at the John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM). It was a success on several fronts: more posters than ever, as well as the participation of two undergraduate students at Kapio’lani Community College (KCC) and two students from the University of Hawai’i at [...]
MD RESIDENTS & FACULTY: Doctors in the Deep
When Dr. Steven Minaglia and Dr. Scott Harvey suggest exercise as a way to reduce stress and promote good health, they are speaking from experience. The two plan to swim from Moloka`i to Lana`i on May 12, 2012 and there’s a very good chance they will make good on their plans. Minaglia, Assistant Professor in [...]
RESEARCH: Top finishes For SNRP Team research abstracts
Two abstracts from the John A. Burns School ohf Medicine and The Queen’s Medical Center research group, funded in part by Specialized Neuroscience Research Program (SNRP), [U54 NS56883], received special merit awards from the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM). With a multidisciplinary membership of over 6,000 including clinicians, physicists, engineers, etc., ISMRM [...]
Dean meets IN WASHINGTON with Hawaii Congressional team to discuss research funding at UH medical school
University of Hawai`i John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) Dean Jerris Hedges, MD was in Washington, D.C. this week to meet with members of Hawai`i’s Congressional Delegation. Dr. Hedges met with U.S. Senator Daniel Inouye and many of his staff, in between the Senator’s extremely busy schedule chairing hearings of the Senate’s Appropriations Committee. [...]
FACULTY: Dr. Maddock named a fellow in national academy of health behavior researchers
The director of University of Hawai`i Mānoa’s Office of Public Health Studies (OHPS), Jay Maddock, Ph.D., has been accepted as a Fellow in the American Academy of Health Behavior (AAHB). The AAHB, founded in 1997, is a research home for health behavior scholars and researchers whose primary commitment is to excellence in research and improving [...]
STUDENTS: MD student outreach to homeless expands
Medical students Brad Kamitaki, Huy Do, Yvonne Lum, and Hezhi Gan are in the Onelauena homeless shelter, surrounding a man with care. This spot, on O`ahu’s leeward coast, is probably the last place in the world the man expected to find young University of Hawai`i medical students. They encircle him, working together to clean and [...]
UH System News
- System: UH Board of Regents considers Hawaiian studies associate in arts degree May 16, 2012
- Honolulu: University of Hawaii and Cisco announce newest Networking Academy May 15, 2012
- Mānoa: Nine UH Law grads earn Native Hawaiian Law Certificates May 14, 2012
- Mānoa: Kihei Ceremony symbolizes journey to honored role of physician May 11, 2012
- Mānoa: Commencement ceremonies to be held at Stan Sheriff Center on Saturday May 10, 2012
- West Oʻahu: UH West Oahu's Dr. Stefanie Wilson represents Rotary Club in Hiroshima May 10, 2012
- Mānoa: UH Manoa medical students exceed national average 7th year in a row May 10, 2012
- Mānoa: Seven posthumous degrees to be awarded at ROTC Commissioning Ceremony May 10, 2012
- Hilo: New website highlights UH Hilo research May 9, 2012
- Mānoa: Physics and Astronomy Department hosting international workshop May 14-17 May 9, 2012
