UH Med Now - Workforce Development

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 […]

Millions view Hawai’i as ‘paradise,’ and the hundreds entering Waikiki’s Hilton Hawaiian Village for Hawai’i Pacific Basin Area Health Education Center’s (AHEC) Health Workforce Summit got a reminder of what makes the state so appealing to the rest of the world. While Saturday’s conference was in one of the world’s most iconic cities, it was […]

Although the majority of medical students at the University of Hawaiʻi John A. Burns School of Medicine (UH JABSOM) receives scholarship support (73.4% in the graduating class of 2021), the financial burden for medical school remains exorbitant. According to the latest Financial Aid Summary Report from the Association of American Medical Colleges, 74% of students […]

The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (UHM) was awarded a five-year, $2 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant titled “Maximizing Access to Research Careers (MARC).” The grant will enable UHM faculty from the College of Natural Sciences, College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources, John A Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM), Pacific Biosciences Research […]

The Joint Healthcare Opportunities Conference (JHOC) went virtual in April 2021. Thirty middle and high school students were presented with a video scenario in which people may catch COVID-19 and went through different breakout sessions led by various healthcare departments that help patients with the infectious disease. Presentations and workshops were led by the departments, […]

Pictured: Weinman Fellows pose with UH medical school Dean Jerris Hedges, UHM Chancellor Emeritus Virginia Hinshaw, former Dean Ed Cadman and Barry and Virginia Weinman in 2008. “A doctor is one of the greatest assets in a community. Encouraging future physicians to stay in our Islands not only strengthens the medical profession and quality of […]