A few Navy HPSP Residency Questions. Thx.

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This is a repost from Navy HPSP Match lists.

I appreciate everyone's feedback.
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Funny thing, that info black hole.

OK. Thank goodness for you Navy med students looking out for us naive, wet-behind-the-ears premeds. You guys are awesome. I read all your posts with delight.

Anyway, my recruiter told me that 3/4 of hpsp-er's do a GMO, which is cool. I just wanted to see the hard data to show it. (for the record, there seems to be some data available concerning the military med school, but not for hpspers.) I was wondering how many FamilyP, IM's, OB/GYN's had to do a GMO first. Plus, do you have a take on the GMO "phase-out"? It can't be entirely b-****. I saw a memo showing some director's intention to phase them out. These memos and words have some meaning and reliability, don't they? Personally, I don't care what they do with me, but I would feel much better about treating servicepeople as a GMO if I had a FP residency behind me, instead of a year of hanging around a hospital.

OK, last thing... I heard the military was MD/DO blind, didn't discriminate. My recruiter said this, as did some residency administrator, who was an MD. Do you believe this? Can DO's do neurosurgery and Ortho in the Navy. Or do those residency directors give them a hard time?

One other thing, NAVYFP--again, thx. What does it take to really impress the sock off the residency directors? Do they look for the same things as civilian res directors--high grades, test scores, rotation performance, and research. Or is there something else? I myself am not going after competitive residencies, but I'd like to begin getting a sense of what they're looking for.

Thx.


Thanks much, NAVYFP!

 

[NavyFP]

This is a repost from Navy HPSP Match lists.

I appreciate everyone's feedback.
*******************************
Funny thing, that info black hole.

OK. Thank goodness for you Navy med students looking out for us naive, wet-behind-the-ears premeds. You guys are awesome. I read all your posts with delight.

Anyway, my recruiter told me that 3/4 of hpsp-er's do a GMO, which is cool. I just wanted to see the hard data to show it. (for the record, there seems to be some data available concerning the military med school, but not for hpspers.) I was wondering how many FamilyP, IM's, OB/GYN's had to do a GMO first. Plus, do you have a take on the GMO "phase-out"? It can't be entirely b-****. I saw a memo showing some director's intention to phase them out. These memos and words have some meaning and reliability, don't they? Personally, I don't care what they do with me, but I would feel much better about treating servicepeople as a GMO if I had a FP residency behind me, instead of a year of hanging around a hospital.Primary care is very likely to train straight through. The ones who go off to be GMOs are doing so by choice.(as a rule) For the GMO phase out, the GMO billets are being renamed for FP/IM/Peds and should be filled as such in the future. They can still put a graduated intern into those slots, but the goal would be not to.

OK, last thing... I heard the military was MD/DO blind, didn't discriminate. My recruiter said this, as did some residency administrator, who was an MD. Do you believe this? Can DO's do neurosurgery and Ortho in the Navy. Or do those residency directors give them a hard time?As a rule, the Navy is colorblind to the MD/DO issue. I don't know of a DO neurosurgeon, but if a qualified candidate applied, he or she would get equal treatment

One other thing, NAVYFP--again, thx. What does it take to really impress the sock off the residency directors? Do they look for the same things as civilian res directors--high grades, test scores, rotation performance, and research. Or is there something else? I myself am not going after competitive residencies, but I'd like to begin getting a sense of what they're looking for.
That's it. The big key would be to do an audition rotation at your number one site and have them recognize you as a true stud.
Thx.


Thanks much, NAVYFP!

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