Pictured: The door to the residents’ call room at one of Hawai’i’s major medical centers. This is where they compile their physicians’ notes and wait for their next call to assist with a patient.
By Tina Shelton UH Med Now
Our newest physicians — MD Interns and Residents — will be joining the Dean and his team on June 30, 2017 on campus to celebrate the beginning of the new Graduate Medical Education year, which starts on July 1, 2017.
The John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) sponsors 17 graduate medical education programs, training about 235 physicians annually in residency and fellowship programs which range from three to seven years. They will work at our community health center training sites, under faculty supervision, while gaining experience which will prepare them for licensure and board certification. These doctors train in the specialties of Family Medicine, Sports Medicine, Internal Medicine, Cardiology, Geriatric Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Orthopaedic Surgery, Pathology, Pediatrics, Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, General Psychiatry, Addiction Psychiatry, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Geriatric Psychiatry, General Surgery, Surgical Critical Care, and Transitional year.
Training occurs in a variety of community healthcare facilities including those of The Queen’s Health Systems, Hawaiʻi Pacific Health (Kapi‘olani Medical Center for Women and Children, Pali Momi Medical Center, Straub Medical Center), Kuakini Medical Center, Kaiser Permanente Moanalua Medical Center, U.S. Department of Veteran’s Affairs, Tripler Army Medical Center, the Mililani Physician Center, Rehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific, Shriners Hospital for Children, Wahiawā General Hospital, the Hawaiʻi State Department of Health and multiple other sites.
See our RESIDENCY GATHERING video from 2016: