For decades, UC and Veterans Affairs medical centers have advanced a shared mission of patient care, research and health professional education. Across seven VA medical centers, UC faculty and trainees help deliver care to veterans while also preparing California’s physician workforce, with more than two-thirds of UC medical students, residents and fellows training in VA settings.

• Veterans get access to specialized academic medicine through the work of thousands of UC faculty and residents who provide expert, team-based care at VA medical centers.
• California’s physician workforce is strengthened through VA medical centers that serve as essential training sites for future doctors, advancing the long-standing UC-VA partnership.
• The UCSF Fresno partnership has supported veterans and trained future doctors since 1975, when the UCSF Fresno medical campus was established.

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