University of Hawaii Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a community-based, university-affiliated AP/CP program built around three major Honolulu hospitals (Queen's Medical Center, Kapiolani Medical Center for Women & Children, and Kaiser Permanente) plus the City & County Medical Examiner's office and Blood Bank of Hawaii, giving residents exposure across private practice, HMO, and forensic settings rather than a single quaternary academic center. Its defining clinical distinction is the multiethnic Hawaiian population combined with referred cases from across the Pacific Rim, producing tropical medicine and pathology exposure unavailable on the US mainland. Research is required but modest in scope - one scholarly project plus QA/QI and New Technology projects presented locally at the Hawaii Society of Pathologists rather than positioned as a driver of national academic output - and the program explicitly frames itself as preparing residents for both community and academic pathology careers, with graduates obtaining fellowships across subspecialties. The program values steady clinicopathologic reasoning built through graduated responsibility and case-based learning across multiple practice models rather than high-intensity bench research productivity.