About 75 % of the department's officers are vaccinated, 255 have applied for religious or medical exemptions and two are facing termination for refusing to comply with the city's vaccine mandate.<br/><br/>
JABSOM) welcomed 77 first-year medical students into its new curricular initiative, the Learning Community program. The anticipated positive impact of this pioneering medical education on health care delivery has resulted in the
HMSA Foundation adding to its initial support of the program, donating $5 million to establish the
HMSA Learning Innovations Endowment to support innovative medical education.
First-year medical students (Class of 2024).
The Learning Innovations Center within the Office of Medical Education at
JABSOM will continue to evolve medical training to meet the changing needs of Hawaiʻi’s health care system. The center will be named the
HMSA Learning Innovations Center in recognition of
UH med schoolâs mobile clinic for Hawaiiâs homeless becomes target of thieves
UH med schoolâs mobile clinic for Hawaiiâs homeless becomes target of thieves By Casey Lund | February 11, 2021 at 5:36 AM HST - Updated February 11 at 7:05 AM
HONOLULU, Hawaii (HawaiiNewsNow) - A student-run, free mobile health clinic that serves Hawaiiâs homeless was targeted by thieves last week.
Dr. Jill Omori, of the Hawaii HOME Project, says the catalytic converter was stolen from the RV used by the University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine program.
âWe utilize our RV as a mobile medical van to go out to where we are most needed,â Omori said. âIn the past two months, our RV has been targeted twice. Last month our window was broken and a few things were taken out of the RV and just last week our catalytic converter was stolen.â
POST site in Keʻehi Lagoon.
About 200 individuals (approximately 15 per week) have been tested through the Hawaiʻi Homeless Outreach and Medical Education (
H.O.M.E.) Project since the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Tropical Medicine Clinical Laboratory (
TMCL) began operating last year. The laboratory remains steadfast in its role to provide COVID-19 testing to underserved populations throughout Oʻahu.
Staff and volunteers at the John A. Burns School of Medicine (
JABSOM) have been providing free, rapid result testing since November 2020. On-location testing events have already reached many, including houseless individuals every Tuesday at the City and County of Honolulu’s Provisional Outdoor Screening and Triage (