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Does anybody know if military medicine residencies are ACGME programs, AOA programs, or are they under another certification system? Also, do military residencies look at what you got Step 1 (I'm assuming yes) and do they look at COMLEX and USMLE or just one. Excuse the ignorance if this question is ridiculous, just looking for a little basic information.

Mahalo

How does a normal day play out? Is it the same routine?

Hi,
I am interested to be a Health Services Administrator in the Medical Services Corps. But I’ve been told that requires a Master’s Degree… I only have a Bachelor’s Degree in Health Care Administration.

So I wanted to ask about the Health Professions Scholarship Program, and if I could use that to get a Masters… (I haven’t applied to any Graduate Program yet), and then be a commissioned officer and experience working for the military.

I'm non-prior and currently on the waitlist at USUHS. I want to know which service is the best for me. I would like to go from USUHS to internship and then directly into a some sort of surgery residency. Which service would give me the best chance to do this without a GMO or anything else getting in the way? It would be nice to hear from people from all three services about the pros and cons of their respective service.

I need all the info I can get.

5 spots at Balboa. 2 spots at Bethesda.

I understand you have to do GMO/FS/Dive to even be considered. Even after GMO/FS/Dive, how competitive is it? what do they look for? What about Derm as a 2nd residency after IM or FP (and this question applies to a civilian derm program too)?

I will be looking to buy a house when starting active duty my questions are: I will need an official letter with salary info for the bank. Who is the one I should contact to provide this info. Also, have you generally found that banks include your bonus pay in determining your home affordability. THanks

My 12th grade English class at my high school is currently conducting research on selected occupations, and I have chosen to do my research on military physicians/surgeons as my topic and interest.

I would gladly appreciate it if you could answer these questions.

1. I'm really interested in knowing what a typical day is in the war zones of Iraq and Afghanistan.
2. What are the usual hours?
3. What are some current problems or issues with this field

If you could, please type what branch of the military you work in and your specific occupation too. I'm rather new to these forums so please be gentle.

Sincerely,

SM1992

How difficult is it to match Navy EM? I'm looking at their wiki site and there appear to only be 18 spots a year?

http://www.navyhpsp.net/wiki/Navy_Gr...ation_Programs

The recruiter says EM isn't very hard to match to, but looking at this and after reading about how many of them are liars, I want your thoughts.

Thanks.

(Long post sorry, question at the end)

So here I am, finishing up my first year in Med School. It's been a pain in the butt, as we speak I should be reading my immunology. But this is something that has really been bugging me.

Last year, I received my acceptance letter to school, and the first thing I did was call up my local Air Force recruiter and tell him I was interested in the HPSP program. I filled out all the stupid paperwork, and when I got to the medications part I hesitated. You see, I used Ritalin my freshman year of high-school. It was prescribed for me by a family doctor in elementary school, and I just continued usage on through. Despite urgings from friends in the Army and Navy, I went ahead and filled out the forms honestly, and listed my history of usage.
The recruiter told me it shouldn't be a problem since I had a letter from a pretty respectable psychiatrist saying that I no longer needed the medication, and I had done well on my MCAT's without it.

I made it all the way through MEPS, all the humiliating, boring, and silly tests, all the way to the final quick review by the head doctor. She tells me, " I see you took Ritalin, you're disqualified without a letter of approval from a psychiatrist."
So I kindly show her my letter of approval from a psychiatrist.
"I'm afraid you are still disqualified. Please sign here."
So I asked her why I was disqualified.
"I'm afraid that you are technically mentally incompetent, and unable to serve. Now please sign here I have more people to see."
So I signed the dotted line listing me as mentally handicapped and headed on out.
I talked to the staff and my recruiter and they said if I could get the Surgeon General of the United States to sign off on my records I'd probably be ok, but otherwise to give up.
Now I have to ask this. I KNOW multiple people who are active duty armed forces for the U.S.A. currently on Methylphenidate, and it is all being PAID FOR by the military. (The Army for the particular friend I'm thinking of)
All because he was diagnosed AFTER he joined up.
All through my year here at school I have met kids who will tell me they hate America and what we stand for, but love having school paid for, so they took the HPSP scholarship.

How is it that they'll take people who hate our country, pay for people to take the same medication I'm in trouble over; but they won't take a Patriot who wants to serve his country? Heck, I'd just about waive the signing bonus if they'd just let me serve.
How do I get around this?
Any advice here?

Sorry, didn't even look at the sticky. I will do a proper search.

Thanks.

I'm all about getting frequent flier miles. If I pay with my own credit card I get double miles for plane ticket purchases.
If it's not a possiblity to pay with my own card, would it be possible to refund the ticket that is purchased on the government card and then use my own personal card to purchase the ticket. Obviously there would be a positive balance on the government card.
Anyway, I'm just trying to think outside the box which I know is a no-no in the military, but it doesn't hurt to try. Thanks.

I'm a first year Army HPSP student at a DO school and am interested in orthopedics. I've had a hard time finding information on the various residency sites beyond what is said on their websites; basically I want to know what's good/bad about them, what they specialize in, quality of teaching, etc. Also, what would be good things to do to help improve my chances of matching? Any input on how to manage ADT's/rotations would be helpful too.

Did you guys see this story in the national news. It's Navy Captains gone wild. Does a destroyer have a GMO? Wonder what the medical officer was subjected to?

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,...est=latestnews

"A Navy inspector general report said investigators had substantiated that Graf assaulted subordinates (pushing one, grabbing another and once throwing wadded up paper at another sailor) and that she regularly verbally abused subordinates by publicly berating them, belittling them and using profane language.

The allegations were called in to a Navy hotline and covered March 2008 to July 2009. The report was issued in December, she was relieved of her command on Jan. 19 and on Thursday was awaiting new orders, one official said.

Graf once ordered a subordinate to stand in a "timeout" in a corner in front of the full watch team, which he complained to investigators was demeaning to him, according to the report.

The report also found she used her office for personal gain — that is, asked junior officers to play piano at her private Christmas party and to walk her dogs.

Among allegations not substantiated was one that she endangered the ship while allowing a drag-race between the Cowpens and the destroyer USS John S. McCain in February 2009."

I was told there is a group on Facebook for people who were in or are about to enter Navy ODS through HPSP...can anyone give me a link? I'm having a hard time finding it.

Hello,

I am currently an E-4 in the Army, and my ETS date is 30SEP2011. I want to be sure that I don't get moved before then from Fort Sill, due to schooling of my family.

From the ARs I've read, I can re-enlist before March 31st, 2010, then get that base stabilization. I plan to take the MCAT next spring (2011), as I have a bachelor's in chemistry from WashU in St. Louis and will have a master's in psychology from Cameron after this semester.

So is that re-enlistment idea a good idea?

I also have a permanent profile 112111, due to blowing out my knee in college either playing football or doing Army ROTC. So I had been off/on temp profiles, and I should have been back on profile for the first PT test my last semester (my knee killed me all day), but I was too proud and didn't want to look like I was shamming. Brigade commander of ROTC for all the schools in the region kicks me out, so I have to pay back 4 years. Note: I had one final surgery on my knee right before graduation from WashU, as it kept locking out on me (I actually grew back too much cartilage through autologous chondrocyte implantation.

i ran with a brace for about 2.5 years now, but decided a couple months ago, I couldn't take the pain for when we have PT tests (we do PT every day for 2 months leading up to the PT test). So now, I have this permanent profile. My question is whether I can get a waiver for HPSP and/or USUHS.

Thanks for reading,
SPC Red Dragon

I'm a little confused. I signed up for my away rotation during the summer between my third and fourth year as my "third year ADT." I noticed there was another request section for fourth year and was wondering what people do with that block.

I'll already be doing my ADT at Walter Reed Aug-mid September. Is it possible to schedule my "fourth" year ADT after that and before the 15 OCT deadline for FYGME selection? If I do, can I use a couple of the weeks of the 45 day block to do school ADT? From what I can tell, as long as I don't pick the same hospital site, I should be ok? Also, am I limited to one ADT a calendar year or is it one ADT per academic year?

thanks in advance. i'm going to oblc this summer so I'm a little lost re. away rotations/matching.

I could google this, but I'd rather hear it from someone who has done it: what exactly is flight surgery? The summer between my first and second year they brought us to San Antonio to tell us about it, but they were a little vague on what exactly it entails...oh and they made it sound like we had a choice of whether or not we wanted to do it. But I'm starting to warm up to the idea of possibly doing it for awhile. My impression was your kind of the family doc for a group of soldiers, a flight. Is that about right?

Can anyone tell me what the day to day work is like? Also, what kind of pay do they receive? If we're HSPS, does this count toward our time served? Are all tours as a FS two years?

Thanks.

Hi y'all,

Just sent off my fingerprints for AF HPSP -- since I already have a clearance from a fed agency, I've assumed I'll be cleared and am looking forward towards commissioning. Do you commission in uniform? I've been to several AFROTC commissioning ceremonies and they're all sporting dress blues, but I've never been to one pre-OTS/COT/FT whatever.

My dad is USAFA and my mom was AFROTC, and they're both inviting a lot of family friends (which hopefully will include the Col/priest who married them, baptized me, and will hopefully commission me) so it'd be pretty baller if I could finagle an in-uniform ceremony.

Thanks!

I was going to ask about this on my previous thread, but I thought it was a separate topic that needed to be brought up.

I heard today about residents, and even fellows, getting pulled out of their residency or fellowship and being told they were going to be flight surgeons for some years. Does this happen often? How do they choose who will be a flight surgeon when they need one - the top performers or is it random? Is the AF always short on flight surgeons? I just can't imagine people want to take that option, my guess is more are forced into it.

Ugh, that would be ridiculously frustrating just because it delays your career further.

I'm a 3rd year at KCUMB on the Air Force HSPS, and I'm certain now that I want to go into EM. Although not my first choice originally, I would be happy at Wright-Patt or down in San Antonio doing my residency. I haven't done much research yet, so I'm sure there is a lot I can find out on my own, but if anyone can tell me anything about those locations - lectures and conferences, volume, etc, that'd be awesome.

My main question is about civilian deferments. I don't want to go into anything else, EM is it, so if I don't match into those two locations or I find a civilian residency I like better, what is the best way to go about making sure I get that civilian residency? My wife and I would like to be by either friends or family when I start my residency, and we really know nobody near those areas, so in all likelihood I will end up preferring a civilian program in the end, despite the rather generous pay difference.

So to put it more succintly - you don't get matched into the only two EM programs in the AF and you DO NOT want to do any work as a flight surgeon and you DO NOT want to match into anything else; what do you do?

And - you prefer a civilian program or two over the military programs based on volume, location, etc. What do you do?

Thanks, guys.