Education and Training

General Information

• Tripler Directorate of Health Education and Training (DOHET) is a resource for all hospital education, training and staff development. DOHET manages and coordinates activities that promote the readiness level and provides educational opportunities for Tripler.
• ​Please click on a link below for additional information concerning a particular area of interest.

Graduate Medical Education
Medical Simulation Center
Shadowing (Observation)
Student/Trainee Requirements​

Post Graduate Verification

• Requests for physician verification of internship, residency and/or fellowship may be e-mailed to usarmy.tripler.medcom-tamc.mbx.student-clerkships@health.mil or faxed to 808-433-1559 attention Lead GME Coordinator. 
• Verification can take up to 30 days to complete.

Educational/Training Rotations

• Are limited to students/trainees enrolled in formal education and training programs at an accredited school or institution.
• For any civilian student/trainee (this includes Health Profession Scholarship Program (HPSP)) students doing an NADT (non-active duty training) rotation here at Tripler, we must have a memorandum of agreement in place between Tripler and the student's school or institution (takes from two to six months to complete) before the student may train at Tripler.  
  • The Graduate Medical Education Office is the proponent for the establishment of agreements with medical schools.
  • Directorate of Academics, Research and Training is the proponent for the establishment of agreements with all allied health and administrative educational institutions.

Hospital Training Programs

• Life Support Classes:  BLS (Basic Life Support), ACLS (Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support), NRP (Neonatal Resuscitation Program) and PALS (Pediatrics Advance Life Support: (808) 433-2923
• Staff Development, Orientation and Mandatory Annual Training; (808) 433-7958
• Readiness Medical Training for EMTs (Emergency Medical Technicians) and Medical Proficiency Training; (808) 5204/7931
• Patient Education; (808) 433-2565/2176

PHI/PII Information

To protect student/trainee information, all protected health information (PHI) and personally identifiable information (PII) will be encrypted and be submitted to appropriate educational coordinator/sponsor via the DoD SAFE (Department of Defense Safe Access File Exchange) website.

• Please follow the instructions on website for submission of documentation to your educational coordinator/sponsor.
• All non-PHI/PII documentation can be submitted via regular e-mail channels or the DoD SAFE website to your educational coordinator/sponsor.

Other Programs offered at Tripler

• Anesthesia Nursing (U.S. Army Graduate Program)
• Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship
• Clinical Psychology Postdoctoral Fellowship
• Clinical Psychology Postdoctoral Residency (Military)
• Clinical Health Psychology Fellowship Program
• Clinical Psychology Internship Program
• Clinical Psychology Practicum Program
• Clinical Health Psychology Fellowship Program (tricare.mil)
• Health and Business Administration (U.S. Army-Baylor)
• Physician Assistant Program (Inter-service)
• Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellowship - University of Hawai'i at Manoa John A. Burns School of Medicine
• Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Residency
• Post-Doctoral Clinical Child, Clinical Health, and Clinical Neuropsychology Fellowship Training Program
• Post-Doctoral Clinical Psychology Residency Program
• Post-Doctoral Fellowship Application Procedure
• Pharmacy PGY-1 Program
• Social Work Internship Program (Army)