{"id":72834,"date":"2018-01-04T10:42:56","date_gmt":"2018-01-04T20:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=72834"},"modified":"2020-03-13T15:15:13","modified_gmt":"2020-03-14T01:15:13","slug":"michael-brigoli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2018\/01\/04\/michael-brigoli\/","title":{"rendered":"National recognition for firefighter paramedic turned <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> medical student"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_72845\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-72845\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/manoa-brigoli-m.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"320\" class=\"size-full wp-image-72845\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/manoa-brigoli-m.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/manoa-brigoli-m-234x300.jpg 234w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-72845\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Brigoli<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Michael Brigoli<\/strong> has followed a path from Army medic to <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> County firefighter paramedic to medical student. His next step is becoming a doctor at the <a href=\"http:\/\/jabsom.hawaii.edu\/\">John A. Burns School of Medicine<\/a> (JABSOM) at the <a href=\"http:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa<\/a>, and he&#8217;s earning national accolades on the way.<\/p>\n<p>The 43-year-old non-traditional student is one of only seven future physicians selected by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aamc.org\/\">Association of American Medical Colleges<\/a> to appear on its <a href=\"https:\/\/students-residents.aamc.org\/applying-medical-school\/preparing-med-school\/anatomy-applicant\/demonstrate-the-core-competencies\/\">Anatomy of an Applicant: Demonstrating Core Competencies website<\/a>. He was nominated by <abbr>JABSOM<\/abbr> <a href=\"https:\/\/jabsom.hawaii.edu\/ed-programs\/md-program\/admissions-program\/\">Admissions<\/a> Director <strong>Ivy Nip-Asano<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/students-residents.aamc.org\/applying-medical-school\/student\/mikes-path-medical-school\/\">See Brigoli&#8217;s profile<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Committed to serving hometown needs<\/h2>\n<p>Brigoli enlisted in the U.S. Army after leaving college without a degree. He was trained as a medic and, after his military commitment, he became a <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> County firefighter. As a paramedic in the rural community where he grew up, he resolved to become a doctor.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I would arrive at emergency scenes (as a paramedic) and ask a patient who their doctor was, and they would tell me the name of the emergency room physician. They didn&#8217;t have their own doctor. <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Island has the least amount of physicians taking care of our population,&rdquo; said Brigoli. &ldquo;After a while I just thought, &lsquo;We need to do something.&rsquo;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Doing something took audacity. With the support of his wife and two sons, Brigoli sold the family&#8217;s Big Island home and moved everyone to <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span>, where he completed his college degree at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/campuses\/westoahu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>\u2013West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span><\/a>. He was accepted into the medical school in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Brigoli was impressed by <abbr>JABSOM<\/abbr>&#8216;s strong commitment to <a href=\"https:\/\/jabsom.hawaii.edu\/departments\/dnhh\/\">Native Hawaiian Health<\/a>, and to training and graduating Native Hawaiian physicians.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;When I was growing up, I didn&#8217;t think that being a physician was something that I could do,&rdquo; said Brigoli. &ldquo;I didn&#8217;t know any Native Hawaiian physicians. I didn&#8217;t know anybody from my background, having attended three different public high schools (P\u0101hoa High, Castle High on Windward <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span>, and Waipahu High, from which he graduated). There weren&#8217;t a lot of people from my demographic that went on to become physicians.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Brigoli is scheduled to graduate with his medical degree in May 2019. After completing his post-graduate training, everyone knows where he will likely be practicing medicine&#8212;on <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Island, where he is needed the most.<\/p>\n<h2>A 2015 interview with Brigoli<\/h2>\n<div class=\"responsive-video-wrap\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"676\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S5Xf239chNg?rel=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>See the <a href=\"http:\/\/jabsom.hawaii.edu\/national-recognition-for-uh-student-whose-desire-to-be-a-doctor-beat-obstacles-in-the-way\/\">full story<\/a> on the <abbr>JABSOM<\/abbr> website.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;By Tina Shelton<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Brigoli is featured as a fascinating future physician on the website of the Association of American Medical Colleges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[31,660,9,56],"class_list":["post-72834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","tag-john-a-burns-school-of-medicine","tag-student-recognition","tag-uh-manoa","tag-video-2","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72834"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113708,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72834\/revisions\/113708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}