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Message from the Dean
Dean Jerris Hedges
Aloha and welcome to the John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa!
We are pleased to have you visit us. We are very proud of our beautiful waterfront campus in Kaka'ako,
cutting-edge laboratories, innovative programs and our outstanding faculty, staff and students.
Our students are the best and brightest Hawai'i and the Pacific Islands have to offer. Around 1,900
applicants annually compete for the 62 slots in the first-year class. Our graduates score above average
in US medical licensing exams. Moreover, we are the most culturally and ethnically diverse medical school
in the world, and our student body mirrors the diversity of Hawai'i’s population.
Our primary mission is to train physicians for Hawai'i and the Pacific, and we are proud that approximately
60% of the practicing physicians in Hawai'i are graduates of the John A. Burns School of Medicine MD or
residency program.
We have a faculty of 289 full-time and more than 1,000 volunteers and a teaching relationship with all major
community hospitals throughout the main Hawaiian island of O'ahu. Our students learn in an innovative,
student-centered, problem-based curriculum, (PBL) that emphasizes critical thinking, medical simulation-based
experiences and builds life-long learning skills.
Students at the John A. Burns School of Medicine may be candidates for the Doctor of Medicine (MD), graduate
degrees of Master of Science (MS), Master of Public Health (MPH), and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), or an
undergraduate degree in Medical Technology. (BS).
Our school opened as a two-year institution in 1965, and became a four-year medical school in 1973.
As you navigate our website, we hope you will find answers to frequently asked questions about student
qualifications, application procedures and the work of our 16 departments and outstanding faculty.
If you need further assistance, you may contact my office at any time.
Aloha,
Jerris R. Hedges, MD, MS, MMM
Dean and Professor of Medicine
Barry & Virginia Weinman Endowed Chair
John A. Burns School of Medicine
University of Hawai‘i at Manoa
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