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Published November 4, 2011 Students training to become medical doctors and nurses at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa will take part in a collaborative training session on Monday, November 7, 2011 at the John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) campus in Kaka’ako. The session is part of a new joint curriculum begun in [...]

This is derived from an article written by Dr. Darrell Kirch, President & CEO of the Association of American Medical Colleges, for the August 2011 issue of the Hawaii Medical Journal. Since returning from the beautiful campus of the John A. Burns School of Medicine at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, I have had [...]

The first-ever, joint training of UH Manoa nursing and medical students was a distinct hit with students. Comments during a talk-story session included a nursing student saying she learned, “Doctors are people, too, not just super-human robots who know everything!” A medical student then explained that MD students sometimes feel intimidated around nurses. “There’s different [...]

Journalists from Korea helped to save the life of a patient at the John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) on September 2. The journalists visited the medical school so they would be better prepared to write news stories about Hawaiʻi’s advances in health care, both in knowledge and industry, before Novemberʻs summit of the [...]

Program officials and staff from the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) at the National Institutes of Health visited the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoaʻs John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) the week of August 22, to hear about the progress on the Clinical & Translational Research Award called “R-MATRIX”. R-MATRIX stands for Research Centers Minority [...]