1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Veterans-Specific Education for Tomorrow’s Health Professionals Act or the Vet HP Act . 2. Sense of Congress regarding Department of Veterans Affairs pilot program for clinical observation by undergraduate students It is the sense of Congress that the pilot program described in section 3(a) should be designed to— (1) increase the awareness, knowledge, and empathy of future health professionals toward the health conditions common to veterans; (2) increase the diversity of the recruitment pool of future physicians of the Department; and (3) expand clinical observation opportunities for all students by encouraging students of all backgrounds to consider a career in the health professions. 3. Department of Veterans Affairs pilot program for clinical observation by undergraduate students (a) Establishment The Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall carry out a pilot program for a one-year period, beginning not later than August 15, 2021, to provide certain students described in subsection (d) a clinical observation experience at medical centers of the Department of Veterans Affairs. (b) Medical center selection The Secretary shall carry out the pilot program under this section at not fewer than five medical centers of the Department. In selecting such medical centers, the Secretary shall ensure regional diversity among such selected medical centers. (c) Clinical observation sessions (1) Frequency and Duration In carrying out the pilot program, the Secretary shall— (A) provide at least one and not more than three clinical observation sessions at each medical center selected during each calendar year; (B) ensure that each clinical observation session— (i) lasts between four and six months; and (ii) to the extent practicable, begins and ends concurrently with one or more academic terms of an institution of higher education (as defined in section 101 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 1001 ))