The University of Health and Allied Sciences, Ho (UHAS) was established primarily for Practical Orientation, Research and Community Service. To this extent, UHAS seeks to be "a pre-eminent research and practically orientated health educational institution dedicated to community service and to provide for related matters". UHAS understands that obtaining practical experience is a mandatory guideline in training healthcare professionals; it's non-negotiable, essential and fundamental.
The Vocational Training (VT) Programme was therefore instituted as a flagship programme to ensure the community becomes an extension of UHAS's four (4) walls, where the community health facilities become an extension of UHAS lecture rooms and skills laboratories. The Programme is to place students in their chosen work environment for a hands-on experience of the nation's health delivery system, interaction with professionals across all levels of the health and allied sciences service delivery system, provision of health-related support services to the community they are posted to, as well as collection of related field data for their dissertation (i.e. research).