VA Medical Center
The Ann Arbor Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC) is a Dean's Committee facility fully affiliated with the University of Michigan Medical School. It is located approximately one mile from the U-M Medical Center campus and provides acute medical, surgical, and psychiatric care to eligible veterans in southeastern Michigan and northwestern Ohio. All VAMC attending physician staff hold faculty appointments in the U-M Medical School. U-M medical students and housestaff rotate through all clinical services in the hospital. VA-based investigators conduct basic and clinical biomedical research relevant to veterans' health care needs.
The Ann Arbor VAMC Psychiatry Service, has three overall missions:
to provide the highest quality psychiatric care to eligible veterans in the area;
to provide excellent educational experiences in psychiatry for U-M residents, medical students, fellows and other trainees;
to conduct first-rate basic and clinical psychiatric research relevant to the VA's patient population
Clinical research is conducted with patients in both inpatient and outpatient settings, and basic research is conducted by laboratory-based faculty. All of our academic activities are fully integrated with the U-M Department of Psychiatry.