01-19-2008, 05:04 PM
Hopefully, having Hilo as an extension teaching hospital for UH med school will bring some new doctors on island, and hopefully some will 'stick'. (everyone remember to be REALLY nice to the newbies so they WANT to stay here...) Also, with the pharmacology college opeing at UH HIlo, hipefully we will also have more locally trained pharmacists.
Although the HMSA policy through the university is fairly expensive, if you add their tuition to the insurance, you are still paying less than most students pay for tuition alone at most state schools, and UH-Hilo has some top rated instructors (it blows me away when I meet students from other institutions. When they hear that I am taking a class taught by the author of the textbook they are using at a more 'prestigious' school, and then they hear what the class sizes are at UH-H - more like a private school than a state university, oh the green eyes I get! Like anything on this island, the university is small enough that you really get to know everyone, of course this is not good if you want to 'dissolve' into the backdrop of a big school)
Although the HMSA policy through the university is fairly expensive, if you add their tuition to the insurance, you are still paying less than most students pay for tuition alone at most state schools, and UH-Hilo has some top rated instructors (it blows me away when I meet students from other institutions. When they hear that I am taking a class taught by the author of the textbook they are using at a more 'prestigious' school, and then they hear what the class sizes are at UH-H - more like a private school than a state university, oh the green eyes I get! Like anything on this island, the university is small enough that you really get to know everyone, of course this is not good if you want to 'dissolve' into the backdrop of a big school)