The Office of Academic Affiliations (OAA) program announcement to request VA optometry residents for AY 2019-2020 was just released (see attachments).
If you are interested in starting or continuing a VA Optometric Residency program, please work with your ACOS for Education or Designated Education Officer to determine the number of optometry residency positions your VA facility would like to support.
The number of residency positions requested and the corresponding VA facility Optometry Standards of Excellence must be provided and posted to the OAA web-based Support Center by Thursday, October 11, 2018
Memo-Standards of Excellence and Position Requests for Associated Health and Nursing-2019-20_FINAL
Program Announcement – SoE and Position Requests for AH and Nursing – -2019-20_FINAL
FY2020OptometryStandards (002)