JABSOM’s Arnold Kameda caught these wonderful images of our third-year students “suiting up” in gowns and gloves as they prepared to begin clinical rotations at the medical school’s academic training partner hospitals. The Office of Medical Education offerred workshops for a week to give the aspiring physicians some last-minute advice and to build their confidence [...]
Hawai’i has been chosen as one of 41 study locations for the largest-long term study of children’s health and the environment ever done in the United States. The National Children’s Study will include 100,000 children from before birth to age 21. What the Study learns will help find answers to childhood problems like asthma, autism, [...]
Hawai’i physicians, including many from John A. Burns School of Medicine at the University of Hawai’i Mānoa, gave up their weekends at a moment’s notice in late June, to keep alive a 34 year-old program which serves victims of the 1945 nuclear explosions in Japan. Every two years since 1977, a team of physicians from the [...]