MESSAGES FROM LEADERSHIP
VA conducts the nation’s largest education and training program for health professions trainees across 1,000 sites of care in partnership with 1,800 academic affiliates. This mission enhances timely, high-quality care for Veterans while training future health professionals. VA’s academic mission began on January 30, 1946 with Policy Memorandum No. 2 that created mutually beneficial partnerships between VA and its academic partners. Seventy-five years later, it has grown into the most comprehensive academic partnership in U.S. history. I congratulate the Office of Academic Affiliations (OAA) for continually advancing this mission, “To educate for VA and the Nation”.
RICHARD A. STONE, MD ACTING UNDER SECRETARY FOR HEALTH, VETERANS HEALTH ADMINISTRATION
Academic affiliation partnerships are extremely important to maintain VA’s high standard of care while training future health professionals in the latest evidence-based practices in our dynamic patient-centered environment. Through these affiliations, VA shares faculty, trainees and expertise that advances Veteran care. World-class clinicians and teachers come to VA to share their knowledge with approximately 120,000 health professions trainees each year. This 75-year-old affiliation model empowers a pivotal relationship that has led to innovations, clinical advances and the development of new therapeutics—from which our Veterans and the nation benefit.
CAROLYN CLANCY, MD ASSISTANT UNDER SECRETARY FOR HEALTH FOR DISCOVERY, EDUCATION AND AFFILIATE NETWORKS, VETERANS HEALTH ADMINISTRATION
OAA is proud to celebrate 75 years of VA’s academic mission. Delivering the best health care to our Veterans is of the utmost importance and we have put forth vast efforts to ensure a system to do so. The academic affiliation partnership model is vital to VHA, our Veterans and our country. VA operates America’s largest health care training system providing training to nearly 70% of all U.S. physicians and trainees in over 40 health disciplines. I invite you to review this report to learn about VA’s academic mission and the important contributions VA and its academic partners have made so far.
MARJORIE A. BOWMAN, MD, MPA CHIEF ACADEMIC AFFILIATIONS OFFICER, OFFICE OF ACADEMIC AFFILIATIONS, VETERANS HEALTH ADMINISTRATION
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