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    Position Wanted Fully DOD Funded Applicant for PGY2 Ophthalmology Position

    Greetings, I am a current United States Navy flight surgeon serving active duty with orders until July 2025. The bureau of Navy medicine has granted me the ability to apply through the SF match for ophthalmology programs to start July 2025. This means Navy ophthalmology needs exceed current DOD...
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    Navy For those who have experience with Navy medicine, can emergency physicians request to be assigned with Marine/SEAL units?

    If not, what are some of the different ways a Navy physician can work with Marine/SEALs?
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    Flight Surgeon As A Non Traditional* Student

    Hi all, I’ve been reading through posts on both SDN and reddit for the past few weeks about becoming a flight surgeon (particularly, within the navy). In that time I’ve read a lot of informative posts and had some really productive conversations with flight surgeons (s/o to Ravager135), but I...
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    Attending Navy NAMI as an Army Doc

    I am an Army HPSP student, but would like to attend the Navy Flight Surgeon course in Pensacola, Fl. I realize the Army also has a flight surgeon course at Fort Rucker, but the Navy's primary course seems to be more extensive; 6 months for Navy versus 6 weeks for Army, with the Navy offering...
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    MD Air Force Family Medicine Rotation Details

    Hey guys. I'm a third year AF HPSP medical student leaning heavily towards family medicine these days and was curious about my rotation options. Does anyone have any experience with any of the following bases? I understand my choices are as follows: -Nellis AFB (Las Vegas, NV) -Eglin AFB...
  6. EngineerMedic

    Air Force Pilot-Physician Program (Engineering)

    Hello, this is my first post on the forums and I wanted to get some information/advice about the USAF’s Pilot-Physician Program (PPP). For background: I am currently an undergraduate student, and I still have enough time to shuffle majors/minors around, take certain electives over others, etc...
  7. RockDoc28

    Flight surgeon post-mil?

    I'm a third year AFHPSP student interested in flight surgery, but am wondering what flight surgeons are able or qualified to do when they retire from the military. Would I be able to work in a primary care clinic? Or go on to do fellowships? Thanks!
  8. devilpup

    Civilian to Reserves

    Hey folks, hoping for some guidance here. 30 year old guy, finished IM residency a year ago, currently very happy doing a Hospitalist gig at a major tertiary center in SoCal, no prior military experience but i’m interested in joining the Air Force Reserves. My reasons are simple: one, i’ve...