2009-2010 Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences Application Thread

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PinkNoise said:
When did you receive your waitlist letter? I'll wait another week for my letter. Thanks so much for the info! Good luck and keep us posted on your status!
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The waitlist letter was dated april 15th and i received it last thursday... april 22? i'd say if you don't get it in another week to call in
 
PinkNoise said:
When did you receive your waitlist letter? I'll wait another week for my letter. Thanks so much for the info! Good luck and keep us posted on your status!
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PS-- I figured I should note I live in Germantown, MD... so anything they send from USUHS I receive within 2 days at most. so if USPS tends to take up to 10 days to deliver, you still have a few days left. no worries🙂
 
act9 said:
PS-- I figured I should note I live in Germantown, MD... so anything they send from USUHS I receive within 2 days at most. so if USPS tends to take up to 10 days to deliver, you still have a few days left. no worries🙂
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I was a bit discouraged when my mailbox was empty on Saturday. Thanks for the heads up! 🙂 I will wait until the end of the week!
 
When do we contact our nearest TMO office?

And also for partial DTY's where do we get our car weighed? DOes the TMO office set that up for us?
 
Just out of curiosity, what areas are people starting to find places to live? I am still in the planning stages of finding a place. I live in Philly, so it's easy for me to go check areas out, but I dont really know the first place to start. What are the affordable, not-too-studenty areas in DC/Bethesda? Is there a part of town (which town?!) that USUHS students live preferentially. I know this question has already kind of come up in this forum, but since people are actually starting to plan moves etc, I'm interested in hearing the latest from people.
 
I Doctor said:
When do we contact our nearest TMO office?

And also for partial DTY's where do we get our car weighed? DOes the TMO office set that up for us?
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You can contact TMO once you have orders to set up your move. When you tell them you want to do a partial DITY, they should give you a list of places in your local area to weigh your vehicle. Most military installations have weigh stations, but you can also go to a moving company to get it weighed.
 
I Doctor said:
When do we contact our nearest TMO office?

And also for partial DTY's where do we get our car weighed? DOes the TMO office set that up for us?
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You should be able get weighed at any truckstop. Just look for the scales.
 
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PinkNoise said:
I was a bit discouraged when my mailbox was empty on Saturday. Thanks for the heads up! 🙂 I will wait until the end of the week!
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"...have been recommended for selection by the Admissions Committee and approved by the Dean."

Got my waitlist letter today, dated 23 April 2010. 👍
 
Hey everyone-- does anyone remember who exactly I'm supposed to email in admissions with updates on my application? I remember interview day the one lady came in and said any further communication should be emailed to her because the rest of admissions would be busy with other things, but I can't remember her name and my interview materials (incl her email address) are missing in my move somewhere. If anyone could either PM me the address or post it up on here, I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks
 
I'm a third year at USUHS, and I'm now on my Psychiatry rotation at Walter Reed. I graduated from the Naval Academy and went straight into USUHS. I own a house about 10 minutes from school that I bought my first year. I've lived in it, and rented to my classmates and to guys in other classes at USUHS, and it's aways been a great deal. Now I'm married and soon to be living down in DC with my wife, so I need to find USUHS guys and girls to rent to (already have 1!).

The house in a quaint, safe residential neighborhood that's about a 10 minute drive from USUHS, 15 with traffic. It's right off Beach Dr and Rock Creek Park (a running/biking trail that goes all the way to DC, and is the peaceful park you drive along to get to school and skip the morning traffic). It's also close to a Safeway grocery, Target, Macy's and all the restaurants and bars in downtown Bethesday are just a little farther down the road from school.

The house itself is a two level house that has the same basic set-up on each level: a separate, ground level entrance, a porch with patio furniture, a full kitchen (fridge, microwave, dishwasher, range and oven included), a big common area, a bathroom and two bedrooms (4 total bedrooms). Each bedroom is about 11x11, big windows for natural light and has a closet. for scale, I've lived comfortably with a queen sized bed, a HUGE wrap around desk, bookshelves and a dresser.

The house has a full yard, a shed and plenty of drive-way and next to the house parking (there are 5 parking spaces). There is a high efficiency washer and dryer in the house.

As I mentioned, I try to rent out to USUHS people as much as possible because I think it's a good deal and you guys are awesome. The rooms are available singly, or if you have two of your friends you want to rent with (since one room is already rented to a USUHS guy), that's great, too. I recently dropped the rent to $659-$676, depending on the room you pick.

If you want pictures or more info, or you just have questions about USUHS or the Navy, just message me back.

Looking forward to hearing from you, and good luck!

Steve
 
act9 said:
Hey everyone-- does anyone remember who exactly I'm supposed to email in admissions with updates on my application? I remember interview day the one lady came in and said any further communication should be emailed to her because the rest of admissions would be busy with other things, but I can't remember her name and my interview materials (incl her email address) are missing in my move somewhere. If anyone could either PM me the address or post it up on here, I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks
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Lenora Hamlette: [email protected]
 
Hey, can anyone post the interview invite link that we were sent? I need to reference some things. Thanks.
 
Hey all - I was searching for an answer in this thread and the internets, but I didnt find one immediately, and I bet someone here can answer this pretty easily: What is our salary as USUHS students? After tax? Trying to figure out how much i have to spend on rent... Thanks!
 
One more question. I feel sure this has been addressed earlier in this thread or on the milmed thread, but I cant find it. What is the typical progression for a usuhs grad in terms or rank? For AF, I think when we graduate we become Captains right? What happens after? How long typically to the next rank? What is the typical rank after the 7 year commitment is over?
 
0919mmk said:
Hey all - I was searching for an answer in this thread and the internets, but I didnt find one immediately, and I bet someone here can answer this pretty easily: What is our salary as USUHS students? After tax? Trying to figure out how much i have to spend on rent... Thanks!
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look up any services pay scale-- during your 4 years in USUHS you are earning the O1 pay, you graduate to O3

This from page 28 of here: http://www.usuhs.mil/adm/catalog/USUCatalog.pdf
 
So umm, can we get a count of who's definitely attending USU and which branch? I'd like to tally these up 🙂
 
Barring any sudden panic attacks I'm a definite (navy). Of course, I withdrew from my other acceptance so unless I get in somewhere else it would have to be one hell of a panic attck.
 
act9 said:
tryin to figure out which waitlist to get on?;-)
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Typically, the first year class is composed of 63 Army students, 51 Air Force students, 51 Navy students, and 6 Public Health Service students.

I just want to predict how much waitlist movement there might be.

Congrats on getting into the Navy Dru2002, heard it was a demanding year for that branch!
 
Historically, 3 PHS students matriculate, but they may have increased the number to 6 for your class. I'm not sure.

To answer other questions:
- plan on your take home pay coming in a little over $4000/mo. Of course several factors can affect the amount, including state taxes, life insurance, cash advance loan repayment, TSP contributions, etc. However, you are guaranteed roughly $1900 nontaxable through housing and subsistence allowances as a non-prior with no kids or spouse.
- the typical promotion schedule after graduation is every 6 years. You also get a slight pay raise every 2 years of service in addition to the annual inflation adjustment. Then of course you also start getting the medical bonuses as you progress through residency and become board certified. The typical USUHS grad who does a 3 year year residency and 7 year service repayment will get out as a mid-level O4 (Major in the Air Force / Army, LCDR in the Navy) with 10 years in service.
 
I interviewed on the last day, 3/11, and just received my waitlist letter today, dated 23 April 2010. I put Navy as my first choice. Good luck to everyone waiting!
 
pegsterzzz said:
I interviewed on the last day, 3/11, and just received my waitlist letter today, dated 23 April 2010. I put Navy as my first choice. Good luck to everyone waiting!
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Congratulations! I interviewed that day too so hopefully the anxious checking of the mailbox will end soon. (*crosses fingers*)
 
dwb8p said:
Historically, 3 PHS students matriculate, but they may have increased the number to 6 for your class. I'm not sure.

To answer other questions:
- plan on your take home pay coming in a little over $4000/mo. Of course several factors can affect the amount, including state taxes, life insurance, cash advance loan repayment, TSP contributions, etc. However, you are guaranteed roughly $1900 nontaxable through housing and subsistence allowances as a non-prior with no kids or spouse.
- the typical promotion schedule after graduation is every 6 years. You also get a slight pay raise every 2 years of service in addition to the annual inflation adjustment. Then of course you also start getting the medical bonuses as you progress through residency and become board certified. The typical USUHS grad who does a 3 year year residency and 7 year service repayment will get out as a mid-level O4 (Major in the Air Force / Army, LCDR in the Navy) with 10 years in service.
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With MD tax, my pay comes in at just under 4000. BAH (with no dependents) is about 1660 for this area.
 
silverhorse84 said:
With MD tax, my pay comes in at just under 4000. BAH (with no dependents) is about 1660 for this area.
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That's why I'm glad to be a PA resident...no state income tax if stationed out of state. Also glad I'm prior-service for the higher BAH.
 
Can someone also explain how leave works? Lets just say someone wanted to miss a couple of days of school because of vacation/family thing etc, is this possible or no?
 
I Doctor said:
Can someone also explain how leave works? Lets just say someone wanted to miss a couple of days of school because of vacation/family thing etc, is this possible or no?
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I'm not a USUHS student so I could be off base but I am gonna say that's a no go. Usually there are preassigned leave periods you can take and without extremely extenuating circumstances leave outside of that is not granted. Hopefully one of the USUHS students can comment more specifically.
 
Navy (51):
1. dru2002

Air Force (51):
1. Erald Coil
2. fuzzy dog
3. DB85

Army (63):
1. xmsr3
2. VanessaC

Public Health (6):


Congrats everyone!
 
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I Doctor said:
Can someone also explain how leave works? Lets just say someone wanted to miss a couple of days of school because of vacation/family thing etc, is this possible or no?
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For leave on non-school days it's no big deal - you submit a form and go (no matter how little leave you've accrued).

To miss school days it has to be something big, and no, vacation/family thing isn't big, unless the family thing is that someone died (or something else along those lines). To miss mandatory things, you have to have permission from the course director in addition to your service specific company commander.

What you can do, if you wanted to get away for the weekend, is submit a pass starting at 1600 on Friday to Sunday. The only thing that would hinder that is a mandatory class and the only time we had one of those that was on a Friday afternoon was just after the blizzard to make up for a missed lab.
 
For curiosity's sake... how far away do you have to go to require leave? IE if I go to Baltimore a lot, do I need leave everytime I go, or is that close enough that I'm still within the area? (I'm on the waiting list, so this is a very hypothetical question here🙂)
 
I Doctor said:
On the MS1 and MS2 schedules, what does "Deans time" mean?
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On our interview, the students told us that "Dean's Time" is your study time. It's reserve it as Dean's time to prevent classes from holding additional sessions or other mandatory meetings to happen during that time to ensure students have the time to study.
 
I'm "conditional" Army. Waiting on physical (which the DoD already cleared me for) and background check.

Anyone speak with Dr. Calloway as to how long those processes might take? I was too excited on the phone with her to formulate the obvious questions.
 
VanessaC said:
Thanks! Dr. Calloway called last night around 8:30.
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Oh man, I'm so jealous😛 I'm so worried I may miss the phone call or not pick up because I think it's a telemarketer or something🙂 Haha-- I need to get another job to get my mind off this!

As a note-- It took about a week after I was cleared by DoD for admissions to acknowledge me as cleared as well. Not sure if that's what you're issue is or if it's something else.
 
Hey someone who knows SDN better than me should start a USUHS poll so we can get an idea of what % people are definitely going, maybe going, waitlist and would def go, which service etc... But I dont know how to make a poll...
 
0919mmk said:
Hey someone who knows SDN better than me should start a USUHS poll so we can get an idea of what % people are definitely going, maybe going, waitlist and would def go, which service etc... But I dont know how to make a poll...
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Done. But with that many options it sure does look ugly.
 
Just happened upon the US News and World Report rankings.

USUHS is 63 in research and 97 in primary care, but number 1 in debt load of students! What up.
 
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