Pictured: Some of the MD Class of 2022 shown in the Auditorium today at JABSOM.
By UH Med Now
The MD Class of 2022 at the University of Hawai’i medical school has begun their fantastic voyage into medicine!
The 72 men and women dove right in to a day full of orientation, a lunch mixer and other tasks –including pausing to talk to the UH Med Now team today — as they look forward toward their White Coat Ceremony this Friday night at the Farrington High School Auditorium. White Coat is a symbolic welcome into medicine for the new MD students and their families, where each member of the class will be called forward and “cloaked” in the short, hip-length coats that will make them instantly recognizable at hospitals around town as medical students.
The MD Class of 2022 have much to be proud of. These 72 students were selected from 2,050 applicants who sought entrance to JABSOM. The new class includes five residents from Maui, two from Hawaiʻi Island and two from Kauaʻi. Forty-seven are from Oʻahu and 11 of the new class earned their way into the Class of 2022 through the challenging one-year ʻImi Hoʻōla Post-Baccalaureate Program. The “ʻImi Eleven” represent the largest ʻImi class so far to matriculate into JABSOM! We also have 10 students from the US Mainland or Canada, two from Guam and one from Saipan, reflecting the John A. Burns mission to provide medical education opportunities for the children of Hawaiʻi and the Pacific Islands.
Nine of our new class have Master’s Degrees. One has a PhD earned here at JABSOM. This will be the 30th class to learn medicine in JABSOM’s “Problem-Based Learning” (PBL) Curriculum. Our school was was an early pioneer of PBL — in fact this is the 30th anniversary of its use here.
Three decades ago, former JABSOM Dean Christian Gulbrandsen, MD, Dr. Alex Anderson and their medical school collaborators changed the UH medical curriculum from lecture-style teaching to active, hands-on, mentor-to-student and student-to-student learning. Problem-based learning, imported to Hawaiʻi from McMaster University in Ontario, earned the praise of U.S. institutions including Harvard University, and helped pave the way for modern medical student training.
But enough about all that for now. Meet some of the MD Class of 2022, who paused a few seconds to speak to our “Shout-out Cam,” in-between their crammed orientation sessions.
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