{"id":22,"count":12,"description":"In 1969 the MEDEX Program was founded as a means to bring highly trained returning military veterans into the US workforce. The war in Vietnam had produced skilled medics and corpsmen, individuals experienced in delivery life-saving medical care to fellow soldiers under the most harrowing conditions of battle. But without the proper credentials of a medical school, all remained underutilized upon their return home. By 1974, MEDEX dropped its restriction on admitting only ex-military medical personnel. Men and women with civilian medical backgrounds were admitted into PA programs. Today, MEDEX Northwest remains true to its military roots with nearly 30% of its students coming from some branch of service.\r\n\r\nExplore the experiences of men and women from a military background that found their civilian career path through MEDEX.\r\n","link":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/test\/category\/veterans\/","name":"Veterans","slug":"veterans","taxonomy":"category","parent":0,"meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}