Education at National Jewish Health

Education has been important to the National Jewish Health mission since the first TB patients learned about the benefits of rest and good nutrition.

• Through Community Outreach, patients and the public benefit from free lung-function tests and disease-management classes. Recognizing that chronically-ill patients still needed an academic education, National Jewish Health, in 1912, became one of the first medical centers in the nation to offer on-campus schooling.

Since 1925, National Jewish Health has been a training ground for the next generation of clinicians, researchers and public health workers. In 1998, National Jewish Health expanded its preceptorship program to working nurses, pharmacists and doctors who enroll in custom-designed training