University of Hawaii Oahu Program

Program Identity & Fit

A community-based residency sponsored by the University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine and hosted at Pali Momi Medical Center, a community hospital serving central and leeward Oahu. It takes seven residents a year for a complement of twenty-one. Continuity care is delivered at University Family Medicine in the Pali Momi Outpatient Center in Aiea, where clinical pharmacy, behavioral health and community health navigation are part of the team. Rotations extend to Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children, The Queen's Medical Center, Veterans Affairs Pacific Islands sites, and rural clinics on Kauai and windward Oahu. Training covers inpatient medicine, obstetrics, pediatrics, geriatrics, behavioral health, addiction medicine, and rural and public health. The program reports that over 80 percent of its graduates since 1994 have remained in practice in Hawaii and the Pacific.