Patel Erin L, Bates Jeffrey M, Holguin Jocelyn K, Pommer Stacy D, King Samuel S, Greenberg Paul B, Albanese Anthony P, Sanders Karen M, Bowman Marjorie A
is an Acting Chief, Health Professions Education; is an Acting Director, Associated Health; and are National Affiliations Officers, Associated Health; is a Statistician, Associated Health; is an Acting Chief Academic Affiliations Officer; is a Senior Advisor; all in Office of Academic Affiliations, Veterans Health Administration, US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). is Chief of Medicine, VA Northern California Health Care System. is an Acting Assistant Under Secretary for Health, Discovery, Education and Affiliate Networks, Veterans Health Administration, US Department of Veterans Affairs. Paul Greenberg is a Professor of Surgery (Ophthalmology), Alpert Medical School, Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Anthony Albanese is a Clinical Professor of Medicine (Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Addiction Medicine) at UC Davis School of Medicine in Sacramento, California. Karen Sanders is a Professor, Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology at Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine in Richmond, Virginia. Marjorie Bowman is an Emeritus Professor at University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
Fed Pract. 2021 Aug;38(8):374-380. doi: 10.12788/fp.0163.
Approximately 21,000 US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) health professions trainees per year are in associated health (AH) occupations. We describe the VA Office of Academic Affiliation's expansion of AH education in recent years and highlight the importance of increasing AH education broadly in the United States. Our focus is on the growing role of AH education in the VA over the past decade by describing the demand for AH professionals in all clinical settings; scope of funded AH training in the VA; and targeted AH education expansion efforts.
The VA provides clinical training for more than 40 AH professions and provides funding for 17 of these professions. Expansion efforts in AH over the past 10 years have yielded a 33% increase in stipend-funded positions and targeted interprofessional training, VA strategic initiatives, rural populations, and conversion of pregraduate-degree positions to postgraduate-degree positions.
In order to meet the complex health care needs of our nation, continued attention to interprofessional care and health professions education is of paramount importance. The VA has worked to address these broad needs and to meet the needs of veterans through increasing stipend-funded AH training positions by 33% and directly targeting high-need clinical areas. Ongoing expansion is anticipated in the areas of postgraduate-degree training and rural training.
美国退伍军人事务部（VA）每年约有21,000名卫生专业学员从事相关健康（AH）职业。我们描述了VA学术附属办公室近年来在AH教育方面的扩展情况，并强调了在美国广泛增加AH教育的重要性。我们的重点是通过描述所有临床环境中对AH专业人员的需求、VA资助的AH培训范围以及有针对性的AH教育扩展努力，来阐述过去十年中AH教育在VA中日益增长的作用。
VA为40多个AH职业提供临床培训，并为其中17个职业提供资金。过去10年中在AH方面的扩展努力使津贴资助职位增加了33%，并开展了有针对性的跨专业培训、VA战略举措、针对农村人口以及将研究生前学位职位转换为研究生学位职位等工作。
为了满足我国复杂的医疗保健需求，持续关注跨专业护理和卫生专业教育至关重要。VA已努力通过将津贴资助的AH培训职位增加33%并直接针对高需求临床领域来满足这些广泛需求以及退伍军人的需求。预计在研究生学位培训和农村培训领域将持续进行扩展。
