SDN's Military Medicine

I'm a pre-med who is strongly considering AFHPSP. I have done alot of reading and research on these forums, as well as spoken to a recruiter. My question comes from something the recruiter said. Through reading tjhrough many threads, it seemed very clear that with the army one would have the best chance of avoiding GMO and getting into residency. However, the recruiter told me that in the AF I could match into any military residency and would not be limited to only AF residencies. The recruiter specifically stated that I shouldn't believe this 'army myth'. Is this true? If so, could someone briefly explain how applying for residencies with other branches works?

My husband is a child psychiatrist considering joining the air force. Does anyone here have any information about the role of a child psychiatrist in the air force? He is concerned that he would be viewed more as a general psychiatrist and primarily end up seeing adults. He's also not sure about wanting to keep up board certification in both child and adult. Thanks in advance...

How competitive is to get in to IM fellowship program in the Navy? Is there any chance at all to go straight after residency?
I looked the GME website and there are only limited positions in each subspeciality.

How about the chance to do straight IM residency after fellowship? Do you think there is a chance like FM?
Thank you

Hello

I am 3th grade medical student. I study in military surgeon college in my country. I will graduate in 3 years (MD) and receive the army rank "
Second Lieutenant" too. Could you please tell me that

1.Can international medical graduate be an airforce flight surgeon (in U.S. AF base)??
2.Do I need to pass USMLE system? (I think YES)
3.If you know anyone who is international medical graduate and now he/she is the flight surgeon, Could you please tell me his/her study model??

Thank you very much :)

Hello,

I've tried searching for this type of question in both pre-health and military medicine but everything I found about the National Guard pertained mostly to those already in medical school.

I'm wondering if anyone served in the NG while finishing their undergrad years. I regret not joining the military coming out of high school and since I still feel regrets it seems as if the NG might be a good idea. I have two years left for undergrad pre-med and was wondering if if anyone has done NG during their undergrad years and what it was like.

I realize I'm being pretty neurotic since I'm not even a medical student, but there is a lot about the Army Match that I'm curious about. How is it different from the civilian match other than fewer spots and limited locations? What do you need to do to be competitive versus the normal match? Is it true that board scores don't matter as much as in the civilian match? Insight or experiences would be appreciated.

I'm applying to Navy family medicine this cycle. I'm applying only to military programs and hope, obviously, to train straight through. I was unable to do any away rotations due to some family medical issues. I also will be unable to complete ODS until after graduation and so will be late for internship orientation by a week.

I'm completely confused as to how I should approach interviews. Do I interview at all the programs that I've ranked? Or should I interview only at my top choice? Or is the interview not even needed?

I would like to serve in the AF in Family Medicine, but I haven't decided on whether to go active duty or Reserves...any ideas from you guys? (Please don't say NEITHER)

Say that you are an average or slightly above average medical student at a DO school. There is a pretty slim chance of you landing a residency in a competitive field such as derm, ortho, etc. However lets say that you really want to do a residency of this type. Would one be better served to do the HPSP scholarship and probable GMO and eventually (because of your time served) have a better chance of landing a competitive residency post deployment. (Yes I know you will have an increase in total service time) Or are you just kidding yourself and even with a GMO tour you really still have a very slim chance of landing a competitive residency spot?

Also is anyone aware of if the army has switched to 6 month deployments for physicians or are they still deployed for 12 to 13 months.

Thanks everyone.

I've been reading through the posts regarding the pros and cons of military medicine, and I appreciate the tremendous amount of information that people have contributed, but I haven't found an answer for my situation. I am a 3rd year resident in internal medicine and I'm looking for a position for the next 1-2 years. One of the options I am considering is doing contract work at a base hospital (army or air force), and I'd like to hear about some experiences from civillian attendings (or about them). Specifically, I'd like to know how it compares to community jobs for hospitalists or primary care physicians, and whether or not it is worth it to pursue this path. Thanks!

Hey guys.
I’m an M1 at Emory med, and I’m really interested in joining the Navy through the HPSP. I really want to do a GMO or FS tour for my active duty commitment and get out afterwards so that I can do a civilian residency. So is it possible to do 3 years on the HPSP, do an intern year, and then finish off my commitment as a FS or GMO? Or is this plan completely ludicrous?
Thanks

Alright, so I just spoke to a health recruiter over the phone last week, and he told me that the air force hpsp offered a $20,000 sign-on bonus last year, and that if the Navy and Army are offering them, then Air Force recipients can plan on getting the sign-on bonus too. This information came contrary to what I have been reading and hearing lately, so I must say that I'm a little confused. I recognize that nobody should accept the scholarship because of a measly 20 grand, but I would just like to make sure I have the facts. If anyone could varify, or blast away this new information, that would be really helpful. Thanks in advance!!

I really want to serve my country and practice medicine in Japan too. I have decided to join the airforce when I get accepted to medical school. When do you start traveling? can you pick your places to go? I am confused because people tell me that you can't choose and others say you can. Also, when it comes to traveling, you have to wait (some say) or you can travel right away (That's what I've heard).

Has anyone gone the military route and know what happens??? :confused:

Are there any Navy or Air Force EMers that can comment on what their careers are like compared to that of a civilian EMer? I was enlisted in the Marines so I know the more challenging aspects of the military life but was curious what it's like as a doc (i.e. shift frequency and length).

As an aside, I would like to play in the mud and get some tactical training at least a couple of weeks out of the year and therefore am drawn to the Navy as I could work with Marines. Am I correct in thinking this when compared to the Air Force?

Anyone know if the Army is still participating in the Microsoft HUP? If so how to I obtain the program code for it?

Hi there,

I there any way to do ODS after internship or residency?
The school schedule does not allow me to do it before graduation and also I don't have enough time in between graduation and internship.
Is there any one knows this please.

Thanks

Hello,

I am pursuing osteopathic school and am interested in the military HPSP. I also have a strong interest in flying. I was curious as to which route Navy or AF (or even Army) was better for getting the best quality of flight time (I mean actually fly the thing as the co-pilot and not just be a passenger on the aircraft) as a flight surgeon. I want to do my 4 years of service as a flight surgeon and go onto a civilian residency in hopefully anesthesiology or internal medicine or family medicine. I do not want to pursue a military residency. I am also flat footed (have a very low, almost no arch, on my feet) would that in any way stop me from being qualified to actually fly as a flight surgeon? If I can not become a flight surgeon what other options do I have in either the AF or Navy? Thank you for your support.

Feel like I'm starting a bunch of threads recently, but thought this was an interesting tidbit from the Navy O4 selection board results that were just released. Would be interested to see what NavyFP has to say about this.

http://www.navytimes.com/news/2010/0...tions-082510w/

Looking through the results of the early selectees I notice all the new chief residents I know were selected. The ones I know are went straight through in training and have no prior service. The selections were at the first look for O4 (2yrs Below Zone).

Now, here are the take home points I get from this:
1)Being selected Chief Resident appears to be huge for early selection
2)Chief Resident selection > deploying as a GMO to boots on the ground CENTCOM
3)Chief Resident > multiple deployments to CENTCOM
3)Chief Resident > IA GMO with the Army to afghanistan/iraq for 15mos.

Now, here's the reason I think this is happening:
Residents are ranked amongst a group. Almost all GMO's are 1 of 1 reports. One interesting thing is that those selected for Chief Resident don't have a FITREP as chief resident prior to the board meeting, but I think this is probably trumped by them being 1 of X for the residency completion FITREPS (I would hope they were 1 of X anyway).

I would be interested to see the Navy possibly find a way to rank GMO's against their peer group, possibly by duty station or something similar. This would give people an equal chance of making O4 early and in my eyes being a GMO and deploying is a greater service to the fleet than going straight through in a residency and being selected as Chief Resident. Maybe after a year as staff I can see it.

Thoughts, discussion?

This questions relates to anyone who did Army ROTC in undergrad and also took a HPSP Scholarship for Medical School.

I commissioned through ROTC in May... A buddy of mine who also commissioned with me now going to law school told me that we still get a promotion to 1LT after the standard 18 months. This is based off a classmate of his who is a 3rd year now in Law School who received a promotion in the mail.

I was curious based off some of this hear-say that it might be possible that I also get promoted to 1LT sometime in my 2nd year. However, I am thinking based off the HPSP contract, that I would stay as 2LT. It's not a big deal to me, but I was a little curious about it.

Didn't want to totally hijack this thread

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/show...6#post10075216

So, the Navy a few weeks back decided not to renew the contract with UpToDate and therefore all providers lost access. We are now directed to use mdconsult; however, I have heard many, many providers complain. So far I haven't heard of anyone doing anything about it though. What's everyone's opinion on how to go about trying to get this back (it was a money decision, apparently the contract is very expensive).

Petition signed by the providers in your hospital given to CO? ECOMS? Direct email to DH hopefully fwd'd to CO and up the chain?