Andy Baldwin from the Bachelor recently visited the University of Minnesota Medical School in Duluth to recruit for Navy Medicine. His presentation was posted on the university's news release and attached below. Let's take a look at some selected slides:
In the civilian world, internship and residency are contiguous. Medical students accepted for an internal medicine position complete an internship followed by two more years of uninterrupted training. In the military graduate medical education system, interns must apply for post-graduate year 2 (PGY2) positions. Interns not picked up for residency positions are utilized as "general medical officers". What % of Navy medicine interns are sent out as GMOs?
NextGov is running a story about "re-engineering" plans for AHLTA:
The Defense Department has laid the groundwork for a radical shift in the way it processes and stores soldiers’ and veterans’ electronic health records, planning to re-engineer a system a network it spent $6 billion and eight years developing in-house for one based on industry standards, commercial software and re-use of existing code that will serve Defense and the Veterans Affairs Department, top officials told Nextgov.
