Can new trainees and other non-employee members of VA staff use VA LMS to access their mandatory training?
Incoming clinical and administrative trainees and other non-employee members of VA staff (contractors, etc.) are required to complete VA mandatory training prior to beginning their actual tour of duty at VA. Trainees and other non-employee members of VA staff may access this training through sources other than VA LMS. All VA employees must access VA mandatory training through VA LMS. An LMS administrator would need to manually create a VA LMS account for most people that arent VA employees; specific information about each user is required. Because of the large number of trainees and non-employee members of VA staff (100,000 each year), creating non-employee accounts is recognized as a workload issue for LMS administrators. For these reasons, EES will continue to offer an internet server to give trainees and non-employee members of VA staff access to training. Non-employee members of VA staff who do not have VA LMS accounts can now access an alternate site for three mandatory courses: V
