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Center of Outpatient Education Pathway

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Program Description

Thank you for your interest in the Center of Outpatient Education (COE) track! This track was started at our VA Primary Care Clinic in 2010 to provide a robust outpatient clinic experience to residents with a focus on training in leadership and quality improvement (QI). The residents in this track complete a longitudinal QI project throughout their residency that is presented locally and nationally. For clinic, residents are paired in teams and together function as the primary care provider for a panel of patients at the Louis Stokes VA Medical Center. Residents work seamlessly with nurses, social workers, psychologists, and pharmacists to provide a patient-centered approach to care.

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About The Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center

The Cleveland VA Medical center is one of the largest VA centers in the country! It is a tertiary care facility classified as a Clinical Referral Level 1a (most complex) Facility. It is a teaching hospital providing a full range of patient care services, with state-of-the art technology as well as medical education and research. The Wade Park Campus provides all inpatient general acute and tertiary care with 673 total beds.

The Wade Park Primary Care clinic cares for a large number of veterans in Northeast Ohio (an average of 600 visits per week in 2019), with an abundance of resources to care for some of the most underserved and medically complex patients in the region. Services available to our patients include on-site mental health providers for an immediate “warm hand-off” if needed, social worker and pharmacist appointments to assist with social and medical complexity, shared medical appointments for chronic conditions, homeless veteran aids, VARC for veterans struggling with substance abuse, and much more.