Time to suit up! Transition begins for the UH medical school's Class of 2019

University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Contact:
Tina Shelton, (808) 554-2586
Director of Communications, Office of Dean of Medicine, JABSOM
Posted: Jun 20, 2017

MD 2018 medical students Arcelita Imasa, Gabriel Lapid and Joel Sabugo suiting up for surgery last year.
MD 2018 medical students Arcelita Imasa, Gabriel Lapid and Joel Sabugo suiting up for surgery last year.

For members of the UH John A. Burns School of Medicine's Class of 2019, the week of June 19-24 marks that hard-won time of transition from classroom learner to new recruit on the field. They will brush up on all their basic skills, including dressing for success in surgery (teamwork is a must!), and primers on examining everyone from newborn infants to the elderly.

They’ll be guided by pros: MDs who recently earned their degrees and are working toward licensure, and by trusted and accomplished faculty physicians in the wards at training partners Kapio’lani Medical Center, Straub Medical Center, Pali Momi Medical Center, Kuakini Medical Center, The Queen’s Medical Center and the Mililani Physician Center.

As the medical students rotate between weeks of duty in various specialties, they’ll come to know all the best places to find parking before their 4 a.m. shifts, how to eat on the run and, most of all, how to take joy in the limitless opportunities to serve Hawai’i’s people at a critical (sometimes wonderful, sometimes frightening) time in their lives.

For more information, visit: http://jabsom.hawaii.edu/news-media/uh-med-now/