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With Flashplayer, enjoy our slideshow from the University of Hawai`i MD Convocation Ceremony. To link directly to the photos, taken by JABSOM’s Arnold Kameda, click to our Flickr site at UHMED FLICKR. Congratulations, Class of 2013!

University of Hawai`i (UH) President M.R.C. Greenwood congratulated the 55 new MD graduates of the John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) today at the medical school’s Convocation Service by telling the new physicians she felt a special connection to them. “I feel a kind of kinship with this particular class because I started my [...]

The John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) presented awards in 31 categories at the Convocation Ceremony for the MD Class of 2013 on Sunday, May 12. Many of the awards are named in honor of physicians or community leaders who during their own careers raised the bar for outstanding achievement, and they recognize MD [...]

They’ve survived to earn their MDs! Now, in this video on UH Med’s Vimeo and YouTube sites, Jennifer Thomas, Anne Yoshizawa, Jaryd Yee and Krista Kiyosaki, members of the MD Class of 2013, offer some advice for the REST of the students at the John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawai`i-Mānoa, who are [...]

A delegation headed by Associate Professor Preecha Wanichsetakul and Dean from Thammasat University, in Thailand met on May 13 with the Dean and his executive team at John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM), University of Hawai`i to discuss ways to formalize student learning and exchange between the two institutions of academic medicine. Also on [...]

Juniors and seniors from the Kamehameha Schools, established by Hawaiian Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop to provide for the education of Native Hawaiian children, visited the John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM), part of the University of Hawai`i, on May 9. The JABSOM Native Hawaiian Center of Excellence hosted the half-day student field trip, as [...]