Education

We are committed to fostering diverse and supportive, life-long learning environments that enhance critical thinking, creativity, and humility.

Psych residents

Our psychiatry residency program is designed to train residents as clinicians who are well rounded in clinical work, scholarly research, and community service. Our program provides extraordinary opportunities for residents to learn in a culturally rich setting with an ethnically diverse population. In addition to our general psychiatry program, we have fellowship opportunities in addiction medicine, addiction psychiatry, child and adolescent psychiatry and geriatric psychiatry.

If you’re looking for more information about the Hawaii Residency Program, please visit the website: Psychiatry Residency Programs.

Culture, Our residents and fellows gain an in-depth ethnocultural understanding of patients and selected ethnic populations that they work with in Hawaii's multicultural, multiethnic society, showing humility, respect, empathy, and compassion
Opportunity, Psychiatry continues to be a shortage specialty in Hawaii. More than half of our graduates remain in the islands, to work in the community or becoming faculty.
Connectedness, Our program has a relational worldview of well-being. We focus on connectedness among our residents, fellows, and department as a whole; connectedness to the community; and connectedness to place.
Systems, Our department is the largest provider of psychiatric services in Hawaii. Our spectrum of services also extends into the community. In this role, our residents and fellows often care for the most vulnerable patients and populations in Hawaii.

The Department of Psychiatry is committed to providing UH-JABSOM medical students with psychiatric education of the highest quality. We participate in medical student education at all levels, including: the basic problem-based learning units (during the first and second years), the clinical skills preceptorships (notably, the “brain and behavior” subunit), the third-year clerkship, and fourth-year electives.

We are committed to enhancing students’ learning of the biological, behavioral, populational, and clinical aspects of medicine; as we believe that embracing this comprehensive approach can lead to the best care for patients. We take pride in the fact that, among our graduating students, our recruitment rate into the specialty of psychiatry is around twice the national average (of 3 to 4%).

JABSOM Match Day 2019
JABSOM Match Day, 2019

If you are looking for more information about the John A. Burns School of Medicine, please visit the JABSOM website and the HRP website.

Continuing Medical Education (CME)

Our Continuing Medical Education Program includes Psychiatry Grand Rounds, Journal Clubs, and Department sponsored conferences and webinars.

The Psychiatry Grand Rounds series seeks to promote excellence and quality in clinical care by covering topics related to recent advances in medical care, scientific advances that affect the practice of medicine; and provide a forum for discussion of topics that strengthen the relationship of psychiatry to the broader community. Our program is committed to ensuring culture is included. There is no charge to attend. The Queen’s Medical Center designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ in exchange for attendance and evaluation. Psychiatry Grand rounds will be held via WebEx from 12:00-1:00pm on Fridays throughout the fall, winter, and spring, with a brief hiatus in July and August.

Link to Grand Rounds Schedule

The Psychiatry Journal Club is a required component of the General Psychiatry Residency Program didactic curriculum, together with 2 specialty monthly Journal Club seminars overseen by the Addiction Medicine and Addiction Psychiatry Fellowships and Child & Adolescent Fellowship Programs. The Queen’s Medical Center designates each live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ in exchange for attendance and evaluation.  Journal Clubs meet for 1 hour from 5:00pm to 6:00pm on Wednesdays in-person and/or by WebEx. Generally, Child Journal Club takes place on the 2nd Wednesday, Addiction Journal Club on the 3rd Wednesday, and the General Psychiatry Journal Club is on the 4th Wednesday of each month.

Link to Addiction and General schedules

Links to Professional Organizations: HPMA, APA, AACAP, AAGP, AAAP, ACGME