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What are the pros and cons of working for the Army versus in the civilian sector (county/private)?
What are the pros and cons of working for the Army versus in the civilian sector (county/private)?
Also, someone told me about some loophole in the military where the time you spend in residency counts towards the years of service you owe Uncle Sam. If true, that may be worth it since you make more money in residency in the military than the civilian sector!
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I think that's confusion as to the whole "served concurrently" thing that you can do. So you owe the military 4 years for paying for medical school. But you also owe the military 1 year for each year of residency you do. Nice thing is, they let you serve them simultaneously- It's 4 years total, not 4+4. Then there's the 4 of inactive, but... Well, let's just hope that that stays as inactive as it is supposed to be.Also, someone told me about some loophole in the military where the time you spend in residency counts towards the years of service you owe Uncle Sam. If true, that may be worth it since you make more money in residency in the military than the civilian sector!
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Quicker summary: don't get any information from a recruiter.Real quick summary: Do not get all (or even most of) your information from a message board or an internet site.
The other 25 were sent to surgical internships etc, did their year of training, then served 2 years as a flight doc or its equivalent before going through the military match again. The Army now guarantees you can go get your training without an interruption like that, but they then use a fully trained doc (such as a pediatrician) as a battalion surgeon. (the army equivalent of a flight doc, not a surgical position.)
The Army does not guarantee this... I am an Army GMO who is about to complete his Flight Surgeon time and go back to residency in August. The only way you can go straight through if you don't get picked up for your specialty of choice is to go through 'rebuttal board' after the initial match and go into a different specialty. The specialties usually available to scramble into are FM, IM, path...
you are correct in that EM has ranked in top 3 most competitive specialties in the Army match for the last 5 years...
When did that change? At one point they were guaranteeing to let you go all the way through training rather than using GMOs.
Emergency Medicine is one of the specialties where it can work particularly well.