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Facts at a Glance

A Tradition of Educating Health Professionals for Hawai'i

  • JABSOM is accredited by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education through 2016. More than 4,500 individuals have received their MD degrees or trained in the Residency Program at JABSOM.

  • Approximately 50 percent of practicing physicians in the state are graduates of the JABSOM MD or residency program.

  • JABSOM is one of only a handful of medical schools in the nation to convert its curriculum totally to a problem-based learning format.

  • Faculty: 289 full time, 138 part-time, 1,019 volunteer physician faculty.

  • 250 medical students, each class includes 62 students (56 residents; 6 non-residents). Average annual applicants: 1,900.

  • Residents and fellows: 242 (16 different programs).

  • Sixteen departments: Medicine; Surgery; Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women's Health; Pediatrics; Family Medicine and Community Health; Psychiatry; Pathology; Native Hawaiian Health; Geriatric Medicine; Complementary and Alternative Medicine; Tropical Medicine, Medical Microbiology and Pharmacology; Anatomy, Biochemistry, Physiology and Reproductive Biology; Cell and Molecular Biology; Public Health Sciences and Epidemiology, Medical Technology and Communication Sciences and Disorders.

  • Centers and Programs: Institute for Biogenesis Research, Ecology and Health Group, Sports Medicine and Human Performance, Center for Native and Pacific Health Disparities Research, Imi Ho‘ola Post-Baccalaureate Program (12-month post-college program for disadvantaged students), Asia-Pacific Basin Area Health Education Center, Asia-Pacific Institute of Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Hawai‘i AIDS Clinical Research Program, Telehealth Research Institute, Clinical Skills Center.

  • Envisioned by and named after Hawai‘i Governor John A. Burns, established in 1965.


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