{"id":17240,"date":"2013-06-03T15:29:57","date_gmt":"2013-06-04T01:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=17240"},"modified":"2021-11-23T15:04:29","modified_gmt":"2021-11-24T01:04:29","slug":"medical-school-produces-majority-of-best-doctors-in-hawaii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2013\/06\/03\/medical-school-produces-majority-of-best-doctors-in-hawaii\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical school produces majority of Best Doctors in Hawai\u02bbi<\/span>"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>
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Some of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>’s ‘Best Doctors’ pose with JABSOM<\/abbr> Dean Jerris Hedges, front row, right.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Nearly 80 percent of the physicians identified as Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>’s “Best Doctors” for 2013 are alumni or faculty of the UH<\/abbr> Mānoa John A<\/abbr>. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM<\/abbr>)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The annual “Best Doctors” list is determined by the doctors themselves, through a survey in which physicians are asked, “If you or a loved one needed a doctor in your specialty, to whom would you refer them?”<\/p>\n

The Boston-based medical consulting company Best Doctors, Inc.<\/a> compiles the annual list of America’s Best Doctors. Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>’s list was published by Honolulu Magazine<\/em><\/a> in its June 2013 issue<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In all, 421 of the 8,000 licensed physicians in Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> made the “Best Doctors” list. At least 331 of them (78.4 percent) are JABSOM<\/abbr> alumni and faculty.<\/p>\n

“The significance for Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> is that the University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> medical school truly is the single most important contributor to the physician workforce in our state,” said JABSOM<\/abbr> Dean Jerris Hedges<\/strong>. “We are also pleased that so many of our alumni and faculty are recognized by their fellow doctors for their dedication to providing high-quality care.”<\/p>\n

JABSOM<\/abbr> students consistently rank above their peers in the U.S. Medical Licensing Exam Step 1, and by significant margins. For the last eight years in a row, the school’s students have exceeded the national average. The JABSOM<\/abbr> Class of 2013 scored 11 points above the average.<\/p>\n

For more information, read the the UH<\/abbr> Mānoa news release<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alumni and faculty of the UH<\/abbr> Mānoa John A<\/abbr>. Burns School of Medicine ranked some of the best doctors in Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[31,9],"class_list":["post-17240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","tag-john-a-burns-school-of-medicine","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t