Training Pipeline

Is is possible to use the ROTC scholarship to pay for undergraduate and then receive a HPSP scholarship or enroll at USUHS. Another option is to use ROTC to pay for undergraduate and then pay medical school costs out of pocket. The risks of ROTC are that an educational delay is required for medical school and that if you don't get into medical school on your first attempt you will be on active duty. The other possible drawback for funding college and medical school through ROTC, HPSP and USUHS is consecutive payback.

Attached is a useful document with detailed examples of HPSP payback obligation. In a nutshell, internship is dead time. Operational time subtracts from the obligation. Residency time adds to the obligation if the number of years of training exceeds the number of years owed at the start.

The document makes no mention of the statutory service requirement that has to be made up with inactive or active reserve time.

In 2007, instructions and scoring sheets for the JSGMESB were published on the Air Force Medical Service Public Site. The information has been cleaned up and posted below. The original files are attached below.