UH Med Now - Graduate Medical Education

The Freeman Foundation was established in 1993 through the bequest and in memory of businessman and benefactor Mansfield Freeman, who founded the American International Group (AIG). While Mansfield Freeman was from Vermont, he spent many years in China. He wanted to create a foundation that would facilitate the development of mutual understanding among Americans and […]

On Instagram she is @dancingdoctormom but offline she is Dr. Kara Wong Ramsey, neonatologist and assistant professor at the University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine (UH JABSOM). During the early COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, she admired how other doctors including JABSOM alumnus Dr. Daniel Sugai, were using their platform as medical professionals […]

Fourth-year student at the John A. Burns School of Medicine, Aly Baniqued, has waited more than a decade for this day. “Becoming a physician has literally been over 12 years in the making. From undergrad to taking my gap years and eventually getting into medical school, knowing there would be this light at the end […]

Dr. Kanoe Quibelan is a third-year resident of the University of Hawaiʻi Family Medicine Residency Program. She is a 2016 alumna of the Imi Ho’ola Post-Baccalaureate Program and received her MD from the John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) in 2020. As Quibelan is preparing to graduate from residency in June 2023, she shares […]

Gov. David Ige signed two bills to help combat the state’s increasing physician shortage and support the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa John A. Burns School of Medicine’s (JABSOM) mission to retain more of its graduates to practice medicine in Hawaiʻi. Ige signed Senate Bill 2657 and Senate Bill 2597 into law on July 7 at JABSOM. The Hawaiʻi Physician Workforce […]

July marks an infusion of roughly 75 physicians annually across hospitals, wards, and clinics of Hawaiʻi as they begin graduate medical education (GME) programs at the University of Hawaiʻi John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM). Every July 1st, residents and fellows begin their academic year supervised by JABSOM clinical faculty. The training is managed […]