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Associated Health Education Overview Kenneth R. Jones, Ph.D., Director

Associated Health Education Overview Kenneth R. Jones, Ph.D., Director. Veterans Health Administration Office of Academic Affiliations. March 2018. MISSION OF THE OFFICE OF ACADEMIC AFFILIATIONS. Statutory mission of VA VA Policy Memo #2 – 70th anniversary

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Associated Health Education Overview Kenneth R. Jones, Ph.D., Director

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  1. Associated Health Education OverviewKenneth R. Jones, Ph.D., Director Veterans Health Administration Office of Academic Affiliations March 2018

  2. MISSION OF THE OFFICE OF ACADEMIC AFFILIATIONS • Statutory mission of VA • VA Policy Memo #2 – 70th anniversary • To Educate for VA and for the Nation • Social workers and psychologists began in 1940s, in addition to medical residents • Incredibly important recruitment tool • Direct appointment authority • Creating the clinical workforce for VA and the country • Many will go away and then come back to VA in the future • Our major succession planning activity • OAA: Stipends, oversight, policy, coordination

  3. AHE PORTFOLIO • “Associated Health” includes all clinical health professions with the exception of Medicine, Dentistry, and Nursing • Other OAA sections: Graduate Medical/Dental Education, Nursing Education, and Advanced Fellowships (poly trauma) • Over 40 Associated Health professions train in VA • For all clinical trainees, approximately 120,000 rotate through VA annually • Approximately 25,000 are AHE trainees • ~85% are without compensation (WOC) • 17 funded disciplines • AY 18 – just over 4,900 stipends • $139 million

  4. AHE FUNDED TRAININGPOSITIONS Interprofessional Programs: GRECC, Palliative Care, Psychosocial Rehabilitation Fellowship

  5. VISION: INTERPROFESSIONAL TRAINING • Training that goes beyond a simple multidisciplinary team • Members of multiple professions and trainees share responsibilities • Shared curriculum, didactics, projects, and collaborative assessment and care • Trainees learn about the unique contributions of their discipline, the disciplines of fellow trainees, and how to communicate effectively to provide team-based care • Goals: Understand and appreciate own and other’s professional perspective and how to work together in a complementary way to assist Veterans in managing their health

  6. KEY ISSUES • Programmatic accreditation • Liaison with national program offices • Supervision • Remediation • Hiring – Non-competitive flexibilities – RoI • Source of funding • Areas of innovation

  7. AHE RESOURCES • OAA Intranet Link: http://vaww.va.gov/oaa/ • AHE Quick Website Links: https://vaww.portal2.va.gov/sites/oaa/public/Lists/Associated%20Health%20Links/AllItems.aspx • AHE Team E-mail: Assoc.Health@va.gov

  8. THANK YOU, QUESTIONS, AND CONTACT INFO Contact Information: Office of Academic Affiliations (10A2D) Associated Health Education 810 Vermont Avenue Washington, DC 20420 202-461-9490 Assoc.Health@va.gov

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