need contacts for a hawaii family med rotation

[doctor7]

hey all,

i'm trying to get myself to the islands for a few weeks (not until late sept), so i could sure use some ideas on docs to do rotations with. if you've had a good experience or can recommend someone, please post.

thanks.

dr7

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[secretwave101]

I was on the island of Molokai this past summer, and hung out with a Dr. Emmet Aluli (not sure of the spelling).

Unfortunately, I can't give you much more info than that, except to say that he was very cool and offered to help me in any way he could if I wanted to do a UH family residency. I only was there for a few days. But, Molokai is tiny, so if you look the place up on the web and get a phone number for ANY medical facility and call it, they will know him and get you in touch with him. No matter what ANYONE says (including him), DON'T try to contact him via email. He promised me he'd get me all this cool info but never replies. You gotta call him and corner him - but he's great once you get with him.

If you're interested in cross-cultural medicine, as well as native rights and the history of the islands - Aluli is your man. He's been very active in those issues for years.

Uh, and the surf is great...not to mention the diving. And Molokai is basically the only island left that has retained much of its original culture. No Waikiki touron traps there. But of course, I went there to visit the former leper colony and to learn about mycobacterium. Right. Well, actually I played and learned some stuff...but mostly played.

 

[pimmar]

Hi I know of a resident who just graduated from FP and will be going down to Hawaii soon to do a Family Medicine fellowship in Geriatrics. She is really great and loves to teach, her name is Dr. Srinivasan. So if you happen to work with her tell her Maria the med student from SGU who is going to Ob-Gyn says Hi. She was always funny about that, she always made a big deal about it telling patients I was an Ob-Gyn specialist. I am sorry but I don't have her email address nor a way to contact her, I only worked with her when I did my month of FP at St. Joseph's in Paterson. Well good luck.