Historical Inequities in Medical Education - Commitment to Opportunity, Diversity, and Equity at the University of Hawai'i School of Medicine.

Medical education in the US has contributed to institutionalized racism through historically exclusionary practices, which has led to health disparities and inequities in health care today. The 1910 Flexner report, which favored schools with greater resources, led to the closure of nearly half of medical schools in the Us, which were mostly small schools located in rural communities that served economically disadvantaged, ethnic minority, and female populations. Closing these schools ultimately limited the availability of physicians willing to serve disadvantaged and minority populations in impoverished and underserved communities.

Medical School Faculty and Staff Well-being in Fall 2020 during the COVID-19 Pandemic.

The COVID-19 pandemic increased stress and worry among faculty and staff members at universities across the US. To assess the well-being of university faculty and staff, a survey was administered at a medical school in the state of Hawai'i during early fall 2020. The purpose of the exploratory study was to assess and gauge faculty and staff members' well-being regarding the school's response to COVID-19.

Medical school hotline: A History of the University of Hawai'i Postgraduate Medical Education Program at Okinawa Chubu Hospital, 1966-2012.

The University of Hawai'i (UH) has been collaborating with Okinawa Prefectural Chubu Hospital for over 46 years. This collaboration started as a post-World War II effort to increase the physician workforce. At the initiation of the US Army and State Department, the University of Hawai'i was recruited, in cooperation with the government of the Ryukyus and USCAR, to initiate a US style postgraduate clinical training program.

Examining e-Health literacy and the digital divide in an underserved population in Hawai'i.

Seeking health information is one of the leading uses for the Internet and World Wide Web (WWW). Research has found the amount one benefits from e-Health information (health information from electronic sources) is directly related to the level of e-Health literacy. e-Health literacy is defined as "the ability to seek, find, understand, and appraise health information from electronic sources and apply the knowledge gained to addressing or solving a health problem.

Teaching mass casualty triage skills using iterative multimanikin simulations.

Objective: Effective mass casualty triage requires rapid and accurate decision making. First responders need to be trained, but opportunities to practice triage and receive individualized feedback during traditional mass casualty (MC) exercises are uncommon. It was hypothesized that novice learners would improve in speed, accuracy, and self-efficacy after deliberate practice triaging multiple simulated casualties in a MC exercise using high-fidelity manikins.

Teaching mass casualty triage skills using immersive three-dimensional virtual reality.

Objectives: Virtual reality (VR) environments offer potential advantages over traditional paper methods, manikin simulation, and live drills for mass casualty training and assessment. The authors measured the acquisition of triage skills by novice learners after exposing them to three sequential scenarios (A, B, and C) of five simulated patients each in a fully immersed three-dimensional VR environment. The hypothesis was that learners would improve in speed, accuracy, and self-efficacy.