The Western CTSA Education Consortium is a voluntary consortium of Clinical Translational Science Award (CTSA) Education, Training and Workforce Development Unit Directors and Administrators. The purpose of the consortium is to integrate resources and talent across the CTSA hubs to accelerate the training and mentoring of the next generation of clinical and translational scientists. Our Mission is to create an environment that reduces barriers, leverages and combines resources, enables teams, and serves as a model for collaborative training and mentoring consortia.