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Education Resources

Listed here are resources and documents generally helpful to researchers who use VA data. Some of these items are also available elsewhere on the Web site.

We welcome suggestions for additions to this collection; please send any comments to the VIReC Help Desk.

Selected Slide Presentations

As part of VIReC’s commitment to sharing knowledge about databases and information systems with researchers, VIReC faculty host seminars in national and local educational venues. The following are slides from selected workshops presented by VIReC staff.

Cyber Seminars

VIReC cyber seminars provide an opportunity for researchers to learn about new and existing databases and clinical information systems, as well as methods for using databases and information systems to aid their research. Cyber seminars are available as live web conferences and as on-demand archived presentations, available 24/7 as your schedule allows. For more information click here.

Tutorials

VIReC tutorials support VA investigators and analysts, especially new ones, with introductory level technical knowledge. VIReC tutorials currently include:

Toolkit For New Users of National VA Data