{"id":81149,"date":"2018-06-19T13:13:54","date_gmt":"2018-06-19T23:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=81149"},"modified":"2020-03-13T15:10:23","modified_gmt":"2020-03-14T01:10:23","slug":"tax-credit-boosts-volunteer-trainers-in-health-fields","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2018\/06\/19\/tax-credit-boosts-volunteer-trainers-in-health-fields\/","title":{"rendered":"New state tax credit boosts volunteer trainers in health fields"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><div class=\"responsive-video-wrap\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"676\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ze4JgBC7cTg?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Hundreds of practicing physicians, nurses and pharmacists in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span>  are volunteer professors in their fields. They donate their time and expertise to help train the next generation of health workers studying at the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at M\u0101noa <a href=\"http:\/\/jabsom.hawaii.edu\/\">John A. Burns School of Medicine<\/a> (<abbr>JABSOM<\/abbr>) and <a href=\"http:\/\/nursing.hawaii.edu\/\">School of Nursing and Dental Hygiene<\/a>, and <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> Hilo&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/pharmacy.uhh.hawaii.edu\/\">Daniel K. Inouye College of Pharmacy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_81188\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-81188\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/manoa-jabsom-heathcare-tax-credit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/manoa-jabsom-heathcare-tax-credit-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-81188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/manoa-jabsom-heathcare-tax-credit-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/manoa-jabsom-heathcare-tax-credit-630x353.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/manoa-jabsom-heathcare-tax-credit.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-81188\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Governor Ige signs the preceptor tax credit into law while state lawmakers look on.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In clinics and in their offices statewide, these dedicated health workers&#8212;many of whom are <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> alumni&#8212;allow future doctors, advanced practice nurses and pharmacists to learn first-hand from experienced professionals while they are &ldquo;on the job.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>On June 13, a new law was signed to allow these vital volunteer professors, called &ldquo;preceptors,&rdquo; to receive an annual tax credit of up to $5,000 per year in recognition of their longstanding service to the state.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The health preceptor tax credit will enable more students to go into pharmacy school, nursing school and medical school because they&#8217;ll have the professionals, the volunteer professionals, to help them at the end of their journey,&rdquo; said Senator Roz Baker, chair of the state Senate&#8217;s Commerce, Consumer Protection and Health Committee, referring to the clinical training years of medical school, and post-graduate training of medical residents.<\/p>\n<p><abbr>JABSOM<\/abbr> relies on more than 1,200 volunteer clinical faculty, and Dean <a href=\"http:\/\/jabsom.hawaii.edu\/minimedschool\/faculty\/facultyHedges.html\"><strong>Jerris Hedges<\/strong><\/a> said the <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> law may be unique in extending the tax credit benefit to those training advanced practice nurses and pharmacists.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;That is forward-looking, actually, because increasingly our community-based clinical training involves interdisciplinary teams of health providers,&rdquo; said Hedges.<\/p>\n<p>The tax credit applies to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>See the <a href=\"https:\/\/jabsom.hawaii.edu\/jabsoms-volunteer-medical-professors-to-qualify-for-new-state-tax-credit-in-appreciation-of-their-dedication\/\">full story<\/a> on the <abbr>JABSOM<\/abbr> website.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;By Tina Shelton<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new law will help more students get into pharmacy, nursing and medical schools, now that preceptors are recognized for their outstanding community service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[52,31,167,14,9,56],"class_list":["post-81149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","tag-college-of-pharmacy","tag-john-a-burns-school-of-medicine","tag-school-of-nursing-and-dental-hygiene","tag-uh-hilo","tag-uh-manoa","tag-video-2","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81149"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113698,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81149\/revisions\/113698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}