Sixty-four graduates of the University of Hawai’i medical school disperse near and wide in the month ahead, as they begin their careers as MDs in training “from Honolulu to Boston,” as Professor Richard Kasuya memorably put it in his remarks at the MD Convocation Ceremony on May 15, 2016.
Forty-two percent of our 2016 grads will begin their next phase of medicine here in Hawai’i at the post-graduate medical education programs in a long list of care specialties (Internal Medicine (including Geriatrics and Cardiovascular Disease), Surgery (including Surgical Critical Care), Orthopaedic Surgery, Family Medicine (including Sports Medicine), Psychiatry (including Geriatric, Addictions, and Child and Adolescent), Obstetrics and Gynecology, Pediatrics (including Neonatal-Perinatal) and Pathology. The Transitional Year Residency Program provides a single year of clinical experience in various disciplines such as medicine and surgery) at our community-based partner academic training centers The Queen’s Medical Center, Kapiʻolani Medical Center for Women and Children, Straub Clinic and Hospital, Pali Momi Medical Center, Kuakini Medical Center, Wahiawā General Hospital, Kaiser Permanente, Veteran’s Affairs Pacific Islands Health Care System and affiliated programs with the Hawaiʻi State Department of Health.
The feeling displayed throughout our highlight video is the sentiment that was most expressed throughout the Convocation event: love. Through embraces, sometimes second-rounds of hugs, and kisses, loved ones heaped aloha on the newest doctors produced by Hawaiʻi Nei. Most of those who must “go away to Boston” and other places for training, by the way, do express a hope to return to Hawaiʻi to practice medicine.
Convocation 2016 from UHMed on Vimeo.
Edited by Vina Cristobal.