Should I become a Surface Warfare Officer or a Navy Physician? Or is there a good way to do both?
Pros of SWO and cons of MD: -SWOs get to be on ships -SWOs have a direct leadership role -Med school takes a few years Physician pros and SWO cons -MDs get nice pay bonuses -Being an MD in the Navy leads to a medical career in the civilian world, while there isn't a SWO equivalent in the civilian world. So I'm not sure what path to take. By the way, I'm going to go through either NROTC or USNA, my GPA is 3.9-4.0 so it isn't like I would not qualify for med school because of my grades **I know GPA doesn't mean too much, but it can be a guideline.** My second question was, could you do SWO for your full Naval service contract, and then go to med school, and then re enter the Navy as a Physician? I would think that you could, but is that practical? Thank you for the input, and please don't get off topic.
Navy Physician Fleet Marine Force?
I'm currently a premed student and wanted to do the HPSP and become a doctor for the Navy. I'm really more of a Marine Corps person but the Navy provides medical personnel for the Marines, otherwise i would have joined the Marines with HPSP if they offered it. My question is, can a Navy doctor obtain the level of serving a Fleet Marine Force and get the Fleet Marine Force Insignia, I know medical corpsman can but not so sure about doctors, if so what would be the process? p.s. I don't want to know just because i want the insignia, i want to know because i think it would be a great honor to be so close to the Marines and work with them.
Are Navy Corpsman physicians?
We’re like a mix between a nurse and a paramedic. We’re trained for battlefield stabilization, and also longer term care in hospitals. There are corpsman who work with radiologists, dentists, heart surgeons, etc.. We aren’t real doctors, even though we’re called Doc by our squids (and especially our Devil Dogs). Funnily enough, Army and Air Force medics get an EMT Basic certification when they leave, but Navy corpsman do not receive a similar certification. The law actually says a recently retired corpsman should be arrested for practicing medicine without a license after helping car crash victim and the like (if he performs advanced first aid or procedures), because military training isn’t transferable in the eyes of the law.
Join the military to become a physicians assistant?
Ok, i looked into it for you. If you have a 4 year nursing degree, you can be commissioned in the Army as a nurse. The Army will pay up to $20,000 in the CLRP college loan repayment program. But in your first enlistment, you have to choose between the GI bill or CLRP. But, if you reenlist, extend, then after 30 additional months, if you had origionally accepted CLRP, then you become eligible for the GI bill. So it will take an additional 30 months after your first period of service, to qualify for both. As to becoming a PA, the Army accepts PA applications from officers, enlisted or warrents. But you must have 3 years active duty, reserve or national guard service, Before you can apply. Link to the Army Pa program is below. So, you would be looking at atleast 8 years in the Army to do what you want to do. 3 year initial commitment as a officer nurse. 2 years in PA school ( you will receive a masters degree) 3 year commitment after PA school.
Navy ROTC and Physician Assistant schooling?
I want to be a PA in the US Navy, and I have two routes I can take. Advice for either one? 1. Go to UMass Amherst and major in Biology. Become a certified EMT and do volunteer hours there, excel enough to have a good enough GPA to be accepted to a good PA school with a Navy HSPS scholarship. 2. Go to Norwich University for the NROTC program, major in Biology. I'm not sure about becoming an EMT there, but excel enough to get the Navy HSPS scholarship and go to a civillian PA school. My question is this: should I go to UMass OR Norwich?! I know I'd serve more if I ended up at Norwich because of the NROTC and HSPS scholarships. What are my chances of NOT going to PA school if I take the NROTC scholarship? Help!!
How can i become a Navy Anesthesiologist?
Yes, the Navy can and will pay for it all, but it all hinges on your performance all the way through the process. Navy ROTC will award you a full college tuition scholarship if you qualify. Upon graduation as an undergraduate, you are commissioned as an Ensign in the Navy or a Second Lieutenant in the Marine Corps, and are obligated to serve a minimum of four years of active duty. You can then go on to attend medical school out of NROTC with Navy funding but that is a seperate application process once you are in NROTC. You must be at or very near the top of all seniors in NROTC, score very high on the MCAT exam, and have completed all of your pre-med requirements. If you are a top candidiate the Navy will then send you to the F. Edward Ebert School of Medicine at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland. Upon receiving you M.D. You will be promoted to Lieutenant and will serve as either a general or aviation medical officer. After your initial medical officer tour with the Navy, you can apply for a residency and if accepted you can then do your residency in anesthesiology at one of the Navy's hospitals. One of my flight surgeons did an anesthesiology residency at Balboa Naval Hospital in San Diego after completing two assignments in aviation medicine.
Is there a way to become a doctor while being a navy corpsman?
Yes,I was a Corpsman. If you go in the Teams you will be sent to “Goat Lab” as a Corpsman. After that you can attend other schools and can become a Physicians Assistant, There is a selection process (used to be called DEAP Defense Enlisted Academic Program) they chose about 2–3% of the applicants. You have to be at the top of top. A lot of Corpsman I knew both on and off the Teams were selected. Most had gotten either a BS or gone through PA school.Its doable.
How does one become a doctor in the U.S. Navy?
There are no “doctors” in the U.S. Navy, Army or Air Force. There are surgeons. The troops address their medics as “Doc.” To eliminate confusion, the “docs” that are medical doctors are called surgeons.You can become a surgeon in the Navy two ways. The easiest way is to go to medical school and then join the service. The hard way is to join the service and then attend the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. The reason this is the hard way is the class size: 63 Army students, 51 each Air Force and Navy students, and six Public Health Service students.
I want to be a physician but I also want to join the U.S. Marine Corps. Is it possible to do both?
You can be a physician in the Marine Corps, but you won't be practicing medicine. The Marine Corps has no medical personnel of its own. They are all Navy personnel assigned to support. You could enlist as a Navy Corpsman or commission in the appropriate medical corps and then request to serve with the Fleet Marine Force.The Marines care deeply for the Corpsman that serve with them. As Corpsman are not doctors their status is more nebulous with regards to combat, and most are armed so they can defend themselves and their patients if necessary. Corpsman have a distinguished service record, and can count many Medal of Honor recipients in their history. They are still not, and I expect never will be, Marines.The Navy physicians that serve with the FMF are also well respected, but are less likely to accompany Marines directly in combat, and therefore one small step removed from that commradier. This is not to lessen what they do, just a recognition that they often best serve at a higher level care facility than direct battlefield medicine. They are also not Marines.If you want to be a Marines enlist or apply for a commission. It is an honorable calling, and I respect you for considering it. It will by necessity either interrupt your studies or delay the start of your career. How much those competing values mean to you is answer no one here can provide.