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any info is helpful.
anyone match in hawaii?
anyone match in hawaii?
I'm an intern at Hawaii's FM program. It's a strong program overall, and its best strengths are in rural/underserved medicine. The program does not give preferences to UH applicants but most residents have an interest in caring for underserved populations, international health, or are planning on staying and practicing in Hawaii.
The intern year is extremely good, but very intense with 10 inpatient months: two months of peds at a pediatric hospital with other peds residents, OB with OB residents, and MICU with internal medicine residents. We do 3 Family Med inpatient months at Wahiawa General Hospital, a small public hospital where we are unopposed. The hospital is old, physically and technologically, but the only doctors there at night are the FP residents on call and the ER doc, so we gets a lot of hands on experience at being self-sufficient. However, it is likely that these fam med inpatient months will be moved to a different hospital on Oahu withing the next 5 years or so.
In the second and third year we have rural rotations in Hilo, on the Big Island, as well as an additional rural month (we can choose where) and a combined total of 3 electives for which many people opt to go to Micronesia.
This is just a small amount of info. I'll be happy to add to this if you would like.