UH Med Weekly
There is NOTHING like MATCH DAY in Hawaii Nei!
https://youtu.be/9lz4xoXQHrk
Hear what was going through our students' heads as they pondered the Match in the days leading up to the big event!
https://youtu.be/geA--Z5WdiE
Watch for the Hawaii Now MATCH DAY ROUNDUP on KGMB-TV Monday, March 25 at 7 a.m. and on KHNL on Saturday, March 30 at 6 p.m. featuring our MD students and Student Affairs Director Dr. Larry Burgess!
Three Degrees and Counting
JABSOM shared with The Garden Island the remarkable story of Chantell Balaan, a first-generation college student with 3 degrees from UHM on her way to earning a PhD in Developmental and Reproductive Biology. Read the story
Winning Ways
JABSOM's Violet Horvath is one of four honorees presented with the Annual Fall Prevention Award for Outstanding Community Service, by the Hawaii State Department of Health (DOH) and the Hawaii Fall Prevention Consortium. Read more.
Honor Thy Faculty
Our medical students have handed out their latest EME (Execellence in Education) Awards. Read the story from the JABSOM Enquirer... and remember, anyone can be an anonymous JE correspondent!
In case you haven't heard, JABSOM's Julie Inouye has earned a well-deserved promotion to Director of Development and Alumni Engagement at JABSOM! Congratulate Julie when you see her. She learned from the best, the now retired Elaine Evans. Read more about Julie's promotion.
And we can't let Cherry Blossom Pageant Season pass without honoring one of our own!
https://youtu.be/XitQatp8UhI
Free Keiki Health Camp is March 23 at Linapuni Elementary School
The JABSOM Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society invites keiki from kindergarten to the fifth grade to join them for a day of health-related activities hosted by medical students. Lunch and a snack are provided, with the support of AOA, JABSOM, the Hawaii Academy of Family Physicians and Sodexo. It goes from 11 a.m. - 4: 30 p.m. Contact Jon Woo or Eric Gresham for more information.
Farmer's Mkt & Food Fridays @ Na Kupuna Makamae
Burnout and Resiliency (at QMC) Mar. 25
Walk With a Doc April 6
HOPE Sports CME (Sports Medicine & Orthopedics) Apr. 11
Biomedical/Health Disparities Sciences Symposium Apr. 25-26
Prevent Suicide Hawaii Statewide Conference Apr. 11-12
The John A. Burns School of Medicine
Please feel free to send us news tips about what you do at JABSOM or something you see that makes you proud of our school and its 'ohana! Contact Tina Shelton or Deborah Manog Dimaya in your JABSOM Communications office, and check out our UH Med Now blog.
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