Guest Editor

loha. This issue contains the first set of a series of papers to be published in the ncxt few issues of HMJ from the 2004 annual scientific meeting of the Hawaii Chapter of the American College of Physicians. These papers represent only some of the excellent ork presented at the meeting. Of special note is the high caliber work being done by medical residents and students from the John A. Burns School of Medicine of the University of Hawaii (UH) and TriplerArmy Medical Center (TAMC). Faculty from both institutions have taken special interest in mentoring young physicians in every aspect of the work, includ ing: helping with the methodology and supervising conduct of the study. practicing presentation skills and attending the meeting to show support. The annual meeting is remarkable for the collegial involvement hetween UH and iripler in the meeting itself and in the “Jeopardy” style competition between UH and TAMC resident teams that is held on the eve of the annual meeting. The “Jeopardy” competition iS intense and the scope of knowledge displayed by the residents o cr a wide range of medical topics is impressive. For the past several years. Dr. Stephen Salerno. a TAMC internist has done diligent and greatly appreciated work chairing the com mittee to organiLe the oral and poster sessions. He has overseen the re iew and selection of abstracts. organized the oral and poster sessions, recruited judges. and tallied the results for the comperi— non for the best oral and poster presentations among students and residents. This year. these efforts were superimposed on a year in which Dr. Salerno’s military medical duties in administration and clinical care crc exceptionally challenging.