Pictured: MS1 Anthony Kwon receives his white coat
Alumni Newsletter:
The MD Class of 2022 began their fantastic voyage into medicine in July.
The 72 students were selected from 2,050 applicants who sought entrance to the John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM). The new class includes five students 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. There are also 10 students from the US Mainland or Canada. Two from Guam and one from Saipan reflect our mission to provide medical education opportunities for 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 using JABSOM’s Problem-Based Learning (PBL) curriculum. 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.