VA San Diego Healthcare System celebrates VA Health Professions Education Week, March 13-17, 2023, recognizing the contributions of VA college and tutorial companions. The VA trains greater than 113,000 future well being professionals yearly to supply state-of-the-art well being care to our nation’s Veterans.

VA’s well being professions education schemes improve the standard of and well timed entry to care offered to Veterans on the VA. Overseen by the Office of Academic Affiliations (OAA), well being professions trainees (HPTs) take part in over 7,000 wide-ranging coaching packages supplied at 150 VA healthcare services, making VA the nation’s largest supplier of well being professions coaching. Health professions training in VA is performed by way of long-standing partnerships with 1,400 U.S. tutorial establishments, together with 99% of the nation’s medical faculties.

Academic affiliations are very important in assembly Veteran well being care. VA San Diego companions with over 300 tutorial medical establishments across the nation. VA San Diego trains roughly 1800 well being career trainees yearly in varied disciplines by way of these partnerships.

“There is no greater mission than to serve those who have served in the US Military and who have taken the world on their shoulders to pay for our freedom,” stated VA San Diego Director Dr. Frank Pearson. He continues, “To that end, I am proud to say that 70% of America’s past and future healthcare providers have benefited from the training and experience working with Veterans in the VA. We are extremely grateful for the health profession trainees and the purpose they serve in fostering the mission of the VA.” VA San Diego Chief of Staff Dr. Kathleen Kim provides, “With the help of our health profession trainees, we provide excellent, high-quality healthcare to Veterans every day. We thank them for taking care of VA San Diego’s Veterans.”

Offering coaching in additional than 60 medical disciplines, VA San Diego educates future audiologists, chaplains, dentists, occupational therapists, optometrists, orthoptists-prosthetists, pharmacists, physicians, psychologists, dietician nutritionists, nurses, social staff, and speech pathologists to call a number of. Over 15,000 of VA’s HPTs come from Minority Serving Institutions, akin to Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs), Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), and Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities. HPTs help VA’s means to ship and maintain high-quality affected person care to Veterans.

“OAA is honored to highlight the invaluable contributions our health professions trainees make every day in providing care to our Veterans,” stated Marjorie Bowman, MD, MPA, Chief Academic Affiliations Officer. “VA is fortunate to have more than 1,400 academic affiliates who share our theme: passion to learn, power to heal. The academic affiliation partnership model is vital to training future health professionals who care for our Veterans and the Nation.”

Learn extra about VA’s Health Professions Education Week and VA’s well being professions coaching packages by visiting the OAA website or by watching this transient introductory video.