75 YEARS OF SUCCESS


What started as a visionary agreement between VA and medical schools has transformed into a historic national partnership model that embodies OAA’s 75th anniversary theme: “Passion to learn. Power to heal.”


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VA MEDICAL CENTERS (VAMCS) PARTNER WITH OVER 1,800 ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS ACROSS 7,000 TRAINING PROGRAMS.


70% of all physicians in the U.S. train with VA. AND 70%


of current VA psychologists


report having trained in VA.


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Dr. Rosalyn Yalo Medical Physicist


DIFFERENT HEALTH PROFESSIONS FROM DOCTORS AND NURSES TO PSYCHOLOGISTS, PODIATRISTS, OPTOMETRISTS, PHARMACISTS AND SOCIAL WORKERS ARE SUPPORTED BY VA.


120,000


HEALTH PROFESSIONS TRAINEES ROTATE ANNUALLY THROUGH VA TO CARE FOR OVER 9 MILLION VETERAN PATIENTS.


97%


of medical schools are affiliated with VA, including 149 allopathic (LCME) and all 34 osteopathic (AOA) schools.


NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS OF PHYSIOLOGY OR MEDICINE HAVE BEEN AFFILIATED WITH VA:


Dr. Andrew Schally Endocrine Oncologist


Dr. Ferid Murad


Physician, Pharmacologist and Biomedical Researcher


75TH


ANNIVERSARY / 2021


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