Dr. Rachel Boulay has had two awesome ideas that have resulted in Hawai`i’s local public schools getting much-needed laboratory equipment and expertise. First, during the time when public school teachers were furloughed to ease the state budget shortfall, Dr. Boulay competed for U.S. American Reinvestment and Recovery Act (stimulus) funds to offer the teachers training [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

In its annual rankings of the “Best Medical Schools,” U.S. News & World Report has placed the University of Hawai`i at Mānoa John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) onto its lists of “Best Medical Schools for Primary Care” and “Best Medical Schools for Research.” JABSOM Primary Care was ranked #66, tied with the University [...]

Problem-based learning (PBL) is the exciting foundation for medical education at the John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM).  Workshops are now scheduled to help faculty members become certified in PBL. This faculty training workshop is meant to serve as an Introduction to Problem-Based Learning (PBL) for new faculty or a refresher course for faculty [...]

            The John A. Burns School of Medicine has 462 students enrolled in 2013 in Public Health, Communications Sciences & Disorders, Medical Technology, the advanced biomedical sciences and Medicine. Of the more than 250 medical students, 90% are residents of Hawai`i representing every county in the State. Additionally, another 225 newly minted MDs are employed throughout our State and preparing for licensure and board certification in our public-private [...]