John A. Burns School of Medicine

John A. Burns School of Medicine "A Tradition of Educating Health Professionals for Hawai'i", envisioned by and named after Hawai‘i Governor John A. Burns, established in 1965.

-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.

-JABSOM is one of only a handful of medical schools in the nation to convert its curriculum t

otally to a problem-based learning format.

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

-250 medical students, each class includes 62 students (56 residents; 6 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.

03/15/2012

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651 Ilalo Street
Honolulu, HI
96813

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