Educational Programs
| Overview: The John A. Burns School of Medicine at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa takes great pride in its educational programs. These programs include the four-year MD (medical student) program; graduate medical education (MD residency and fellowship training); continuing medical education for practicing physicians; the ʻImi Ho’ōla Post-Baccalaureate Program; and a number of undergraduate, Master’s and PhD degree programs across a broad spectrum of biological and health sciences.
The medical school also offers a number of opportunities for visiting students and faculty, as well as for high school and undergraduate college students interested in learning more about the programs JABSOM offers. The John A. Burns School of Medicine sponsors 19 graduate medical education programs. The residency and fellowship programs range from three to seven years. More than 230 physicians annually receive training and clinical experience in the specialties of Family Medicine, Sports Medicine, Internal Medicine, Cardiology, Geriatric Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Complex Family Planning, Orthopaedic Surgery, Pathology, Pediatrics, Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, General Psychiatry, Addiction Psychiatry, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Geriatric Psychiatry, Addiction Medicine, General Surgery and Surgical Critical Care. Training occurs in a variety of community healthcare facilities where JABSOM faculty are based, including those of The Queen’s Health Systems, Hawaiʻi Pacific Health (Kapi‘olani Medical Center for Women and Children, Pali Momi Medical Center, Straub Medical Center), Kuakini Medical Center, Kaiser Permanente Moanalua Medical Center, U.S. Department of Veteran’s Affairs, Tripler Army Medical Center, Rehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific, Shriners Hospital for Children, Wahiawā General Hospital, the Hawaiʻi State Department of Health and multiple other sites. |