About
Aloha and e komo mai (welcome) to the University of Hawai驶i Family Medicine Residency Program! We are a community-based 7-7-7 program sponsored by the UH John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM). Our hospital sponsor is Pali Momi Medical Center, a community hospital that serves central and leeward O驶ahu, an ideal environment to care for and learn from patients with a wide range of cultural, ethnic, and socio-economic backgrounds.
Training experiences for our residents are as diverse as the communities we serve and include maternal-child health, geriatric care, addictions training, community outreach, and care of the unhoused among many others. We are a and seek to promote reproductive health equity and justice. Our continuity clinic provides team-based care including clinical pharmacy, behavioral health, and community health navigation and serves as the home base for our 驶ohana of students, residents, faculty, and staff.
Our program was established in 1994 in Wahiaw膩 where the program served the community for over 20 years before moving to Pali Momi in 2017. A few years later in 2020, our continuity clinic site also moved to a newly renovated facility at the Pali Momi Outpatient Center in 驶Aiea. Since our founding, we have trained over 170 residents and are proud that over 80% continue to serve in Hawai驶i and the broader Pacific. Diversity, equity, inclusivity, and social justice are part of the founding DNA of our program and we continue to promote this in our work in the present day.
To prepare family physicians to be compassionate, resilient, and effective leaders in improving the health and well-being of individuals, families, and communities of Hawai驶i and the Pacific Basin.
We believe that the foundation of a health system is built upon a strong base of primary care and we seek to achieve this through:
- Providing broad training for a diversity of career paths
- Promoting health equity and trauma-responsive care
- Fostering clinician well-being and resilience
- Cultivating efficacy in community and population-based health
- Advancing education and scholarship in Family Medicine
To create a healthier Hawai驶i by improving care delivery, building community, and reducing healthcare disparities through excellence in Family Medicine.
Core Faculty
The core faculty are those that work within the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at the John A. Burns School of Medicine. They are responsible for the bulk of the teaching, precepting, and curriculum development for the residency, Medical Student Teaching and Sports Medicine fellowship programs.
The other faculty have clinical appointments with our department and all volunteer their time to work with our residents and medical students. The clinical faculty responsible for residency teaching includes over 100 community physicians, many of whom are active medical staff members at Pali Momi Medicial Center and preceptors/supervisors at the various rotation sites (Tripler Army Medical Center, Hilo Medical Center, and private offices). Faculty responsible for medical student teaching include a wide variety of talented family physicians throughout Hawaii and the Pacific Basin.