Archive | August, 2012

Story and photo by Lori M.M. Emery, M.Ed. Faculty Development Coordinator, JABSOM On August 15, Dean Jerris Hedges held a luncheon in the Medical Education Building to recognize 15 of our faculty members who were promoted and/or awarded tenure this summer. They were acknowledged among their peers, Department Chairs, and John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) [...]

Nursing students on three Hawaiian islands will simultaneously join around a poi bowl, to celebrate the inauguration of a landmark new course designed to make them even better care givers by teaching them to be sensitive to cultural differences that can impact their patients’ health. “It’s an opportunity that doesn’t come around very often,” said [...]

The Hawaii HOME Project’s Back-to-School Supplies Drive was a great success! HOME — the Homeless Outreach and Medical Education — provides medical care three times a week to residents of four homeless shelters on O’ahu. “We really want to thank everyone who helped out,” said HOME project founder Dr. Jill Omori, John A. Burns School [...]

Dean: “Welcome to the 2012 reunion of the John A. Burns School of Medicine!” Narrator: And what a reunion it was. Under a transcendent rainbow on the grounds of the medical school at Kaka’ako, there were hundreds of alumni. Carla Nip-Sakamoto, MD, Class of 1988/2012 Reunion Chair:“It’s an amazing turnout we went in a matter [...]

The John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) Alumni Association reserved places for more than 350 MD alumni and guests, and the turnout was terrific at Saturdayʻs reunion as event-goers huddled “under the stars” — and sometimes under a tent — at the Kaka`ako campus. Yes, there were a few showers, but many people in [...]

The John A. Burns School of Medicine’s SimTiki Center provides top-of-the-line simulation equipment to medical students and community health professionals seeking to improve their reaction time in real emergencies. The center’s simulated patients are essentially robots programmed to demonstrate a virtually endless number of emergency scenarios. These are situations which doctors, nurses, paramedics, EMTs and [...]