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Education & Training

The Military Health System includes a robust, innovative, and enterprise-wide system that maximizes education and training opportunities. This ensures we're improving health and building readiness — Anytime, Anywhere—Always.

DHA leads standardized, high-value education and training activities at all levels. This includes:

  • Service members.
  • Health care providers.
  • DHA global workforce.

Workforce professional development and sustainment programs also contribute to the organization’s commitment to a fulfilled staff.

Our Training Opportunities

DHA Learning Management Systemgoes to DHA LMS page (hosted by Joint Knowledge Online)

DHA Academy

Defense Medical Readiness Training Institute

Leadership, Education, Analysis, Development, Sustainment

Medical Education and Training Campus

Medical Modernization and Simulation Division 

Our Training Partners

The U.S. Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine is an internationally renowned center for aerospace medical learning, consultation, aerospace medical investigations and aircrew health assessments. We promote readiness and protect force and community health by using a range of tools and expertise including environmental and health surveillance, laboratory and risk analysis, process re-engineering, consultation and technological innovation to maximize operational health capabilities and to solve problems through ingenuity and partnerships.

TRAIN is a national learning network that provides quality training opportunities for professionals who protect and improve the public’s health.

The Uniformed Services University is the Nation's federal health sciences university and is committed to excellence in military medicine and public health during peace and war. We provide the Nation with health professionals dedicated to career service in the Department of Defense and the United States Public Health Service and with scientists who serve the common good.

The U.S. Army Medical Center of Excellence (MEDCoE), is located at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. The Army Medicine proponent is responsible to envision and design responsive Army Medicine capabilities and structure that support the fielded force and the future force, developing adaptive medical doctrine that supports Army and Joint Force operational requirements. As one of the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command's 10 Centers of Excellence, MEDCoE is who the Army relies upon to train, educate, and inspire all of its medical personnel

VHA TRAIN is an external learning management system to provide valuable, Veteran-focused, accredited, continuing medical education at no cost to community health care providers.

VHA TRAIN is a gateway into the TRAIN Learning Network, the most comprehensive catalog of public health training opportunities. TRAIN is a free service for learners from the Public Health Foundation. VHA TRAIN is supported by the Veterans Health Administration Employee Education System, an internal education and training program office in the Department of Veteran Affairs. Through this site, users can:

  • Quickly find and register for many courses listed on Train.org and participating TRAIN affiliated sites
  • Track learning with personal online transcripts
  • Access valuable materials, course reviews and discussions to improve learning experience
  • Stay informed of the latest public health training for specific areas or expertise

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