DVA - VA Puget Sound Health Care System

We provide a well rounded experience for clerks/students with access to inpatient care, outpatient care, emergency room and operating room. Our students are fully involved in weekly didactics. Great measures have been taken to ensure that our program has a strong curriculum and a well-rounded experience for our students. We wholeheartedly believe we have one of the best training programs in the nation and hope that your clerkship experience here reflects that.

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The VAPSHCS residency is a well-established and comprehensive program located at a major teaching hospital in Seattle, WA. The program has been granted full approval by CPME as a PMSR/RRA residency with 2 residents taken per year for the Seattle/Tacoma Track and 1 resident for the Seattle/Spokane track. Diverse experience in Federal and Private hospital systems through rotations at University of Washington, MultiCare and Madigan Army Medical Center. Our program provides robust and well-rounded experiences in wound care/limb salvage, trauma, surgery, sports medicine and research. Our residents have the unique opportunity of a prosthetics/rehab amputee rotation, complex pediatric patients at Madigan, as well as lecturing opportunities at state/regional conferences. Our residents surpass minimal surgical volume and diversity requirements and our weekly academic time well-prepares our residents to sit for ABFAS and ABPM board qualification exams.