Internships, Fellowships and Residencies
VA Atlanta health care provides training programs for students at the college, university, and postgraduate levels. Explore our training programs to find out about how we can help you start your career as a health care professional.
Clinical Pastoral Education
The Atlanta VA Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) Program provides clinical, experiential, and professional education for spiritual care ministry theological students and clergy of all faiths. Students engage in spiritual care visits, peer group seminars, verbatim case conferences, patient care conferences, and interdisciplinary team meetings. Our students have the supervised opportunity to explore pastoral and personal identity, learn from and about interpersonal relationships, and examine their attitudes, values, culture, and theological assumptions about life and ministry.
Learn more about our Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) Program
Podiatric Residency Program
The Atlanta VA Health Care System offers a 36-month Podiatric Residency Program with training in podiatric medicine, podiatric surgery, reconstructive techniques, and wound care.
Psychology Training Program
The Atlanta VA Health Care System offers Doctoral Internships and Postdoctoral Residencies in Health Service Psychology.
Nurse Practitioner Residency Programs
The Joseph M. Cleland Atlanta VA Medical Center provides Nurse Practitioner Residency [NPR] Programs offering specialized training in Primary Care, Mental Health, and Geriatric Extended Care. The Residency Programs are designed as 12-month programs that operate in the hospital and 21 community-based outpatient clinics within a 50-mile radius. Each residency program can accommodate the following in a cohort:
3 residents in the Geriatric Extended Care cohort.
4 residents in the Mental Health cohort
6 residents in the Primary Care cohort
Learn more about our Nurse Practitioner Residency Programs
Limb Preservation Podiatry Fellowship program
The Atlanta VAHCS Limb Preservation Podiatry Fellowship program is a 12-month training program located in Decatur, Georgia. The Atlanta VAHCS is a 152-bed level 1A inpatient hospital, which provides health care for over 400,000 veterans. This program accepts one fellow annually.
The mission of the Atlanta VAHCS (AVAHCS) Limb Preservation Podiatry Fellowship Program is to further develop, educate and train the podiatric physician in the management of conditions and complications that increase the risk of lower extremity amputation in Veteran patients. It seeks to increase the body of knowledge and depth of clinical and surgical experiences through the collaborative approach to patient management, research, and scholarly activities, thereby solidifying the practice of lifelong learning. The fellow works in a multi-disciplinary practice within the hospital system under the primary departments of podiatry and vascular surgery.
Clinical and surgical experiences is 100% VA-based and includes outpatient and inpatient management of some of the most complicated and co-morbid patients enrolled in the system. Patient management is evidence-based and involves the partnership of internal medicine, endocrinology and infectious diseases, among other specialties. As a patient comprehensively managed by a team, the Veteran patient benefits from the focused and intense whole health care. Because of the amount of time spent within the vascular surgery department, the fellow graduates with an advanced knowledge and skill to identify and rapidly manage or refer patients with acute vasculopathy. The fellow is fully integrated within the podiatry and vascular surgery sections, acting as a liaison between both services, facilitating the care of our complicated patient population. Twenty percent of the curriculum is devoted to research and publication with full support from podiatric and vascular surgery faculty.