In this look back at the John A. Burns School of MEdicine (JABSOM) one year ago, Steve Gonsalves of Maui, now a 2nd year medical student, is interviewed after the Class of 2015 White Coat Ceremony. News reporter Ben Guiterrez asked Steve what it’s like to be chosen to enter the University of Hawai`i’s medical [...]
“Reconnect” is a fitting theme for the JABSOM Reunion 2012 on July 28, 2012. The goal of JABSOM 5-0 and Reunion Chair Carla Nip Sakamoto (MD class of 1988) and her committee is to help alumni reconnect with each other and with the John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM), especially as the medical school heads toward [...]
Employees and visitors to the University of Hawai`i’s John A. Burns School of Medicine heard (and saw!) a car chase, ear-splitting rapid-fire machine gun blasts, shouts and an explosion, as the crew and cast of “Hawaii 5-0″ filmed intense, high-action scenes on Ilalo Street outside near the campus on Thursday, July 12. The show is [...]
The 66 members of the medical doctor class of 2016 have begun orientation at the John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM). In the days before they arrived, it seemed as though even the robotic baby patient in the Sim Tiki Center couldn’t wait for them to arrive. Students, you have just begun four years [...]
The newest students to enter the John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) arrive on campus next week. But our memories of the Class of 2012 are still fresh. The first-year students (our mighty Class of 2015) posted this video on You Tube as the “year four’s” prepared to leave JABSOM. In it, they asked [...]
On Independence Day, our thoughts inevitably turn to those who bravely risked treason to form the United States in 1776 and to those who have served our nation ever since in our armed forces. That includes a part of the service we don’t always see being celebrated, but whose steady humanitarian work around the world [...]