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.

  • Nationwide JABSOM is ranked number one by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) in the retention of M.D. and Resident alumni combined practicing in state.
    
  
  
  • Nationwide JABSOM is ranked number six by the AAMC in the retention of M.D. graduates practicing in state.
    See AAMC's 2011 State Physician Workforce Data Book for details.

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

• 264 medical students, each class includes 66 students (58 residents; 8 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.