To fulfill the intent of the University of Hawaiʻi, John A. Burns School of Medicine to provide outstanding Graduate Medical Education that produces fully trained specialty* and subspecialty physicians and develops environments within hospitals, clinics, and community settings in which quality patient care, health promotion, and academic excellence are sustained, and thereby advance the health and well-being of the people of Hawaiʻi.
*Includes the primary care specialties of Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, and Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women’s Health
The John A. Burns School of Medicine sponsors 20 accredited graduate medical education programs and 1 non-accredited program. The residency and fellowship programs range in length from three to seven years.
About 230 physicians annually receive training and clinical experience in the specialties of Family Medicine, Sports Medicine, Internal Medicine (including a Primary Care track), 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, Surgical Critical Care, and Parkinson’s & Movement Disorders.
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 (Kapiʻolani 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, Wahiawa General Hospital, the Hawaiʻi State Department of Health and multiple other sites. Work continues to expand training to the neighbor islands as well for additional rural experiences.
Residency programs and participating sites: https://www.hawaiiresidency.org/
Leading our graduate medical programs at JABSOM is the Office of the Designated Institutional Official (DIO).
DIO: Susan Steinemann, MD, FACS
For questions, related to GME, please contact: Crystal Costa, Program Specialist, via email at costaca@hawaii.edu or by phone: (808) 692-0989.
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