{"id":99109,"date":"2019-07-01T12:46:53","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T22:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=99109"},"modified":"2020-03-13T15:01:10","modified_gmt":"2020-03-14T01:01:10","slug":"kaiser-expands-jabsom-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2019\/07\/01\/kaiser-expands-jabsom-partnership\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaiser Permanente expands <abbr title=\"John A. Burns School of Medicine\">JABSOM<\/abbr> partnership, offers 5 scholarships"},"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><div class=\"responsive-video-wrap-post\"><figure class=\"wp-block-embed wp-block-embed-youtube is-type-video is-provider-youtube epyt-figure\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe  id=\"_ytid_67597\"  width=\"676\" height=\"676\"  data-origwidth=\"676\" data-origheight=\"676\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JU4pNXIOKV8?enablejsapi=1&origin=https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu&rel=0&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"Kaiser Permanente expands JABSOM partnership, offers 5 scholarships\"  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><\/div><\/figure><\/div>\n<p>To help address the growing physician shortage in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>, <a href=\"https:\/\/kpinhawaii.org\/\">Kaiser Permanente<\/a> has become a full teaching partner with the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa <a href=\"http:\/\/jabsom.hawaii.edu\">John A. Burns School of Medicine<\/a> (<abbr>JABSOM<\/abbr>).<\/p>\n<p>Already a longtime supporter and partner of the medical school, Kaiser Permanente pledged $800,000 to create the Kaiser Permanente <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Medical Student Scholarships. This support will cover full-tuition scholarships for five incoming <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> resident medical students who intend to practice medicine in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>\u2019s rural and\/or underserved communities and help address health disparities within our state.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to supporting the students\u2019 education, Kaiser Permanente will now provide pre-clinical and clinical training opportunities at Moanalua Medical Center and Kaiser Permanente facilities, making it a full teaching partner. Thanks to this private\/public partnership, <abbr>JABSOM<\/abbr> will increase enrollment by five medical students for the 2019&#8211;23 cohort.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Kaiser Permanente leadership\u2019s vision and generosity is empowering <abbr>JABSOM<\/abbr> to compete with other medical schools for our state\u2019s most promising medical student candidates. With this new award, we will be able to keep five more of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>\u2019s best and brightest at home,&rdquo; said <abbr>JABSOM<\/abbr> Dean <strong>Jerris Hedges<\/strong>. &ldquo;To lose top student talent to mainland medical schools is especially disappointing because we know that if students attend medical school and do their residency training in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>, about 85 percent will stay here to practice. That\u2019s the highest retention rate in the nation.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Hedges added, &ldquo;Scholarships help to reduce the impact of indebtedness on a student\u2019s decision regarding which specialty to enter and where to practice. Patients in underserved areas benefit when <abbr>JABSOM<\/abbr> graduates are free to focus on their passions rather than their pocketbooks. Many future doctors give up their dreams of practicing in &ldquo;&#8212;which is already short approximately 700 physicians&#8212;to set up practice on the mainland where the earning potential is higher and the cost of living lower. At the same time, the growing nationwide physician shortage has made it more difficult to recruit mainland physicians to the islands. More than ever, we need to grow our own.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We\u2019re proud that more than 130 of our 665 physicians and providers are <abbr>JABSOM<\/abbr> graduates delivering high-quality care to our members and patients at Kaiser Permanente <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>,&rdquo; said Geoff Sewell, president and executive medical director for <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Permanente Medical Group. &ldquo;Our goal with this partnership is to give more opportunities to talented doctors-to-be in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>, so they can stay in the islands to get an exceptional education and practice medicine after they graduate. We also find that <abbr>JABSOM<\/abbr> physicians are particularly dedicated to improving health equity and eliminating care disparities among our local communities, so we\u2019re thrilled by the potential this partnership has for the health of the people of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jabsom.hawaii.edu\/kaiser-permanente-hawaii-to-expand-md-student-clinical-training-and-learning-at-its-facilities-fund-five-four-year-incoming-scholarships\/\">Read the full news release on the <abbr>JABSOM<\/abbr> website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;By Tina Shelton<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_99156\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-99156\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/manoa-jabsom-kaiser-scholarship.jpg\" alt=\"check presentation with jerris hedges and students\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-99156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/manoa-jabsom-kaiser-scholarship.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/manoa-jabsom-kaiser-scholarship-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/manoa-jabsom-kaiser-scholarship-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-99156\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kaiser Permanente pledged $800,000 to cover 5 full-tuition scholarships.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To help address the growing physician shortage in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>, Kaiser Permanente has become a full teaching partner with the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa John A. Burns School of Medicine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,12],"tags":[31,572,319,9,56],"class_list":["post-99109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","category-video","tag-john-a-burns-school-of-medicine","tag-scholarship","tag-uh-foundation","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\/99109","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=99109"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113681,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99109\/revisions\/113681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}