{"id":7525,"date":"2012-06-21T14:51:06","date_gmt":"2012-06-22T00:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=7525"},"modified":"2021-04-07T12:59:49","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T22:59:49","slug":"imi-hoola-students-complete-medical-school-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2012\/06\/21\/imi-hoola-students-complete-medical-school-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Imi <span aria-label=\"Hoola\">Ho\u02bbola<\/span> students complete medical school program"},"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\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_21579\"  width=\"620\" height=\"349\"  data-origwidth=\"620\" data-origheight=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZYhtV3X1FkQ?enablejsapi=1&#038;origin=https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;rel=0&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;disablekb=0&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"Those who seek to heal\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Nine University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M&#257;noa students in the Imi <span aria-label=\"Hoola\">Ho&#699;ola<\/span> (&ldquo;Those Who Seek to Heal&rdquo;) Post-Baccalaureate Program completed their year-long intensive study at the <a href=\"http:\/\/jabsom.hawaii.edu\/JABSOM\/\">John A. Burns School of Medicine<\/a>. Sometimes described as a &ldquo;boot camp for medical school,&rdquo; those who successfully finish the program gain automatic admission into the newest class at <abbr>JABSOM<\/abbr>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brian Imada<\/strong> of <span aria-label=\"Honokaa\">Honoka&#699;a<\/span>, <strong>Jessica Yuen<\/strong> of Kapolei, <strong>Karra Imoto<\/strong> of Hilo, <strong>Jolana Gollero<\/strong> of Waipahu, <strong>Paul Muna Aguon<\/strong> of Guam, <strong>Andrea Bucci<\/strong> of Honolulu, <strong>January Andaya<\/strong> of Honolulu, <strong>Crystal Lam<\/strong> of <span aria-label=\"Aiea\">&#699;Aiea<\/span> and <strong>Janelle Otsuji<\/strong> of <span aria-label=\"Ewa\">&#699;Ewa<\/span> Beach celebrated at the program&#8217;s completion ceremony held on Wednesday, June 13. In August, they will participate in the &ldquo;White Coat Ceremony&rdquo; celebrating the entry of the entire <abbr>MD<\/abbr> Class of 2016.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Winona Lee<\/strong>, director of the program and the Native Hawaiian Center of Excellence said the ceremony marked &ldquo;an important milestone in the students&#8217; careers, recognizing their academic accomplishments, professional development and individual perseverance.&#8221;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>For more than three decades, Imi <span aria-label=\"Hoola\">Ho&#699;ola<\/span> has recruited promising students from historically under-represented and\/or disadvantaged communities, helping them to successfully enroll in medical school and become physicians. More than 225 physicians&#8212;40 percent of them Native Hawaiians&#8212;have graduated from <abbr>JABSOM<\/abbr> through the Imi <span aria-label=\"Hoola\">Ho&#699;ola<\/span> program. Nearly all of them have returned to their under-served communities to provide needed medical care.<\/p>\n<p><em>Adapted from a John A. Burns School of Medicine <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/article.php?aId=5149\">news release<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nine Imi <span aria-label=\"Hoola\">Ho&#699;ola<\/span> graduates set to enter the School of Medicine&#8217;s class of 2016.<\/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-7525","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":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7525","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=7525"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138718,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7525\/revisions\/138718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}