The Institute for Learning, Education and Development (ILEAD) has officially launched as a new and enhanced education program office in VHA. ILEAD was formed through a reorganization of the legacy VHA Employee Education System (EES) and legacy Healthcare Leadership Talent Institute (HLTI) and resides within the Office of Human Capital Management.
ILEAD’s mission is to best care for Veterans as a high-performing organization that delivers exceptional learning, education and development to every VHA employee throughout their career life cycle. What does this mean for VHA?
ILEAD supports the life cycle of an employee’s career journey within VHA, providing virtual and in-person training, products, services and cohort-based experiential development opportunities for employees in all phases of their career. This responsibility extends from entry-level, through mid-career, to aspiring and new supervisors and managers, and for budding, future and current senior leaders at the executive level.
To become the national standard of excellence for leadership development and Veteran-centric education, ILEAD has expanded scope, reach and impact of its workforce and resources to best serve its customers.
In addition to offering an extensive array of employee education and development, ILEAD is also focused on succession planning, talent management and leadership development, and is actively identifying opportunities to address additional learning needs of employees. These include career pathing, job skill development and proactive up-skilling and reskilling to build the health care workforce of the future.
Aligned with this mission, ILEAD employees have assumed a leadership position in the VHA Training Modernization initiative (or Training Area of Concern initiative), which is a VHA-wide change program bringing best practices into every aspect of training – from how training is requested, to choosing the best design, development, delivery and assessment of training to improve performance metrics.
ILEAD serves as a partner with program offices, field leaders and stakeholders to develop and implement education and development to meet Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Under Secretary for Health and program office priorities and goals. ILEAD also partners to build and support succession planning processes for key positions, encouraging local development of employees to create a strong, steady pipeline of future leaders ready to fill critical roles.
To find out more and to browse a list of offerings for learners, clients and potential clients, please visit the new ILEAD website. If you are interested in partnering with ILEAD, please find your office’s ILEAD performance consultant here.
For more information about ILEAD, check out the ILEAD Overview Data Sheet, At-A-Glace infographic or the Overview PowerPoint.
With questions, please contact the ILEAD Help Center.
ILEAD staff look forward to serving all of VHA to educate and support employees to best care for Veterans.
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In anticipation of a fiscal year 2023 increase in VA-sponsored conferences, the Institute for Learning, Education and Development (ILEAD) completely automated the conference package (CP) development and routing for approval process. The 100% conference package automation goes live today, Oct. 17.
Clients are now able to develop CPs at their own pace and monitor costs of conferences directly from the system. When a CP is submitted, it will be reviewed for completeness, accuracy and compliance with regulations by ILEAD policy reviewers. The automation of CP generation and routing should have a positive measurable impact on the conference approval process without reducing data integrity and quality assurance.
CP production will proceed as a streamlined process reducing human error and the need for CP rework. From beginning to end, the automated process eliminates the current dependency on creating and sending email messages and email attachments. CP approval should become more efficient as digital CPs are automatically routed. Moving directly to the approving official for e-signature and then automatically forwarded to the next step in the process will reduce delays while allowing for full transparency of the process to stakeholders.
If you have any immediate questions and/or concerns regarding the CP process, please contact the Conference Policy and Shared Services Team. Should you have any questions regarding technical issues, please email ILEAD Technology and Informatics Service.
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The Client Relations Service from the Institute for Learning, Education and Development (ILEAD) has partnered with FranklinCovey, a global leader in training and development, to bring VHA a learning resource designed to improve personal effectiveness, leadership capability and quality of service for Veterans. All VHA employees now have an All Access Pass (AAP) to the FranklinCovey library of award-wining learning content aligned to the competencies and priorities that will help execute VHA's mission with excellence and to grow professionally.
For instructions and to learn more about how to access the AAP, click here. For questions regarding the AAP, please contact Eugene Weinreis, ILEAD project manager.
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Don’t miss the featured courses this October in Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Learning Connection.
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Date: Oct. 18 at 1 p.m. ET
Description: This course will give an overview on VisualDx, which is a visual-based differential diagnosis tool designed for the point of care. Users can search by disease or quickly build a differential based on chief complaint, medication or travel finding. It includes more than 40,000 images and 2,700 diseases across general medicine. The course will also discuss how the national subscription now includes DermExpert (part of the VisualDX app), which allows a clinician to use a mobile device to take a photo of a skin condition and immediately analyze the patient’s skin lesion type to assist in making an accurate diagnosis at the point of care.
Audience: All clinical staff
Modality: Virtual conference (webinar)
Credits/Hours: 1
Accreditation(s): None
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Date: Oct. 18 at 1 p.m. ET
Description: This VA-Extension for Community Health Outcomes, or ECHO, knowledge-based series will further the goals of addressing disparities in health care through multi-disciplinary provider education that results in clinical practice changes. This session will present on addressing racial and geographic disparities in access to HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis using implementation science, as well as prevalence of obesity among minority Veterans who are sexual.
Audience: Physicians, nurses, psychologists, pharmacists, social workers and other interested clinicians
Modality: Virtual conference (webinar)
Credits/Hours: 0.25
Accreditation(s): None
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Date: Oct. 19 at 11 a.m. ET
Description: This VA-Extension for Community Health Outcomes, or ECHO, program is focused on increasing knowledge, competencies and skills with respect to specific acute renal issues and chronic kidney disease, including health care access problems among clinical staff from a range of disciplines and specialties. This session will discuss nephrotic glomerular disease.
Audience: Physicians, nurses and pharmacists, among others
Modality: Virtual conference (webinar)
Credits/Hours: 1
Accreditation(s): ACCME, ACCME-NP, ACPE, ANCC, JA IPCE
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Date: Oct. 19 at 2 p.m. ET
Description: This VA-Extension for Community Health Care Outcomes, or ECHO, knowledge-based virtual series gives providers and health care teams an opportunity to share knowledge and address clinical questions on the latest regarding the COVID-19 pandemic. This session will discuss VHA’s whole health approach to long COVID.
Audience: Physicians, nurses, pharmacists, social workers, psychologists and dentists, among others
Modality: Virtual conference (webinar)
Credits/Hours: 1
Accreditation(s): ACCME, ACCME-NP, ACPE, ADA, ANCC, APA, ASWB, JA ICPE, NYSED-P, NYSED SW
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Date: Oct. 20 at 2 p.m. ET
Description: The Pulmonary VA-Extension for Community Health Care Outcomes, or ECHO, series supports programs designed to increase the knowledge, competencies and skills with respect to specific pulmonary chest medicine and health care access issues among clinical staff and health care teams from a range of disciplines and specialties. This session will discuss diagnosing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, and pulmonary function tests.
Audience: Physicians, nurses, psychologists, respiratory therapists and pharmacists, among others
Learning Option: Virtual conference (webinar)
Credits/Hours: 1
Accreditation(s): ACCME, ACCME-NP, ACPE, ANCC, APA, JA IPCE, NYSED
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Date: Nov. 21 at 3:30 p.m. ET
Description: The purpose of this virtual, knowledge-based training is to address brain injury and amplify ideas supporting the complex heterogeneity of neurotrauma and those it affects. This session will discuss eye tracking as a digital neurologic examination.
Audience: Physicians, physician assistants, nurses, psychologists, physical therapists and researchers interested in neurotrauma and industry
Modality: Virtual conference (webinar)
Credits/Hours: 1.5
Accreditation(s): ACCME, ACCME-NP, ANCC, APA, APTA, JA ICPE
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Date: Oct. 21 at 11:30 a.m. ET
Description: The educational focus of this virtual, knowledge-based VA-Extension for Community Health Care Outcomes, or ECHO, program is to address gaps related to common conditions related to liver and gastroenterology. This session will discuss evidence-based liver exam.
Audience: Physicians, nurses and pharmacists, among others
Learning Option: Virtual conference (webinar)
Credits/Hours: 1.25
Accreditation(s): ACCME, ACCME-NP, ANCC, ACPE, JA IPCE
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Date: Oct. 25 at 3 p.m. ET
Description: This knowledge-based VA-Extension for Community Health Care Outcomes, or ECHO, program is focused on increasing the knowledge, competencies and skills with respect to specific hematology-related and health care access issues among clinical staff and health care teams from a range of disciplines and specialties. This session will discuss polycythemia.
Audience: Physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners and pharmacists
Modality: Virtual conferences (webinars)
Credits/Hours: Varies
Accreditation(s): ACCME, ACCME-NP, ANCC, ACPE, ASWB, JA IPCE, NYSED-SW
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Date: Oct. 28 at 11:30 a.m. ET
Description: The educational focus of this virtual, knowledge-based VA-Extension for Community Health Care Outcomes, or ECHO, program is to address gaps related to common conditions related to liver and gastroenterology. This session will discuss the management of Barrett’s esophagus.
Audience: Physicians, nurses and pharmacists, among others
Learning Option: Virtual conference (webinar)
Credits/Hours: 1.25
Accreditation(s): ACCME, ACCME-NP, ANCC, ACPE, JA IPCE
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Date: Nov. 2 at noon ET
Description: The purpose of this live, knowledge-based webinar is to explain how multiple sclerosis (MS) is a unique immune-mediated disease that is progressive in nature and requires special expertise to diagnose, treat and manage symptoms. This training will help bridge the knowledge gap to better understand a person's disease through use of magnetic resonance imaging, as it is important to use consistent practices to allow for accurate comparison.
Audience: Physicians, nurses, social workers, psychologists, pharmacists, kinesiotherapists, occupational therapists, physical therapists and other interested medical professionals
Modality: Virtual conference (webinar)
Credits/Hours: 1
Accreditation(s): ACCME, ACCME-NP, ACPE, ANCC, AOTA, APA, APTA, ASWB, COPSKT, JA ICPE, NYSED-P, NYSED SW
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Description: This training will discuss critical leadership practice number two. It will emphasize the importance of one-on-one meetings between the supervisor and employee.
Audience: VHA staff
Modality: Web-based training (eLearning)
Credits/Hours: 0.5
Accreditation(s): None
Additional information: Need help logging in to your All Access Pass? Follow these simple instructions or contact vacare@franklincovey.com.
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Description: This training provides an overview of the review and appeal options for the Program of Comprehensive Assistance for Family Caregiver (PCAFC) decisions. The training will cover the process to appeal to the Board of Veterans' Appeals; the VHA review process; American Medical Association review and appeal options; key dates; and support available to Veterans and caregivers for review and appeal of PCAFC decisions.
Audience: Patient advocates and those who engage with Veterans and caregivers
Modality: On-demand video
Credits/Hours: 0.5
Accreditation(s): None
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 TRAIN is one of the most widely used public learning management systems and is a free service of the Public Health Foundation. Access hundreds of courses from other Federal and state agencies here.
Description: This module provides an overview of various tips and methods to help ensure efficient and effective management of meetings.
Audience: General public health staff
TRAIN ID: 1078511
Modality: Web-based training (eLearning)
Credits/Hours: 1
Accreditation(s): None
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Description: This book defines strategic foresight and outlines the business imperative for the approach; describes how to leverage both the push and pull of the future; provides guidance on putting strategic foresight in place; and explains how applying the natural foresight framework can help you become a futurist leader.
Audience: All VHA staff
Modality: Book
Credits/Hours: 0.04
Accreditation(s): None
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