About Foreign Hospitals please

[stud247]

So here is a list of all the hospitals and clinics http://www.militarymedicalmalpractice.com/CM/MilitaryHospitals/militaryhospitals19.asp overaseas.
Is this link up to date? Does the u.s. still have a hospital in iceland? What's the difference between a hospital and a clinic? Is a hospital where anybody out of any specialty can be assigned while a clinic is only for GMOs and primary care? If your goal is to get stationed at some exotic (and highly desired) hospital overseas, when could you expect to get it? Let's say you do hpsp and you finish your GMO tour, then residency, then you owe 4 yrs. Will you basically have no say where you are stationed? How about when your commitment ends, can you now pick any base you like with your new contract(and do you extend the contract by additional 4 yrs or is it 2yrs)? If your commitment ends do you also get a bonus to extend your contract? If you are in the navy and your contract is coming to an end, can you demand to get transferred in the army (because you like a certain base) with the same rank and pay grade?

I understand GMOs often work on a ship. But there are also ship surgeons and ship FMs? Are there any other specialties that can work aboard a ship? And would you basically live on the ship?

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[orbitsurgMD]

So here is a list of all the hospitals and clinics http://www.militarymedicalmalpractice.com/CM/MilitaryHospitals/militaryhospitals19.asp overaseas.
Is this link up to date? Does the u.s. still have a hospital in iceland? What's the difference between a hospital and a clinic? Is a hospital where anybody out of any specialty can be assigned while a clinic is only for GMOs and primary care? If your goal is to get stationed at some exotic (and highly desired) hospital overseas, when could you expect to get it? Let's say you do hpsp and you finish your GMO tour, then residency, then you owe 4 yrs. Will you basically have no say where you are stationed? How about when your commitment ends, can you now pick any base you like with your new contract(and do you extend the contract by additional 4 yrs or is it 2yrs)? If your commitment ends do you also get a bonus to extend your contract? If you are in the navy and your contract is coming to an end, can you demand to get transferred in the army (because you like a certain base) with the same rank and pay grade?

I understand GMOs often work on a ship. But there are also ship surgeons and ship FMs? Are there any other specialties that can work aboard a ship? And would you basically live on the ship?

Overseas accompanied tours in attractive locations are highly sought-after opportunities. They usually go to medical officers who have done a tour somewhere else first. If you take accompanied orders overseas, those are usually for a minimum defined time period, and your end date of obligated service may be extended to accommodate those orders. And every once in awhile a good overseas opportunity becomes available to a utilization tour candidate. You just can't count on it.

You may have choices of duty assignment, but they might not include all those available for assignment at the time, and someone coming off a tour at a less desirable location may have choices offered to him that you will not be offered.

There are ship's general surgeons on carriers and the big Marine landing platforms. If you want to go to a ship as an FP or EM-trained doc, you probably would have a better chance by going to flight surgery and, if you wanted to do the shipboard thing longer, do the Navy occupational medicine residency in Aerospace Medicine. It is two years in length, one spent in a university MPH program and one year clinical, you become eligible to sit the occupational and preventive medicine boards and you also become available for assignment as a Senior Medical Officer, which is a shipboard (not squadron) assignment as a senior flight surgeon. That route is generally considered a career medical officer commitment.

Others can say better the status of specialty retention bonuses; they change, but yes, you can be eligible for retention bonuses if you are eligible to leave, have a specialty eligible for the bonus and are willing to commit to a specific length of contract, usually the longer the contract, the bigger the bonus per year contracted.

 

[stud247]

Overseas accompanied tours in attractive locations are highly sought-after opportunities. They usually go to medical officers who have done a tour somewhere else first. If you take accompanied orders overseas, those are usually for a minimum defined time period, and your end date of obligated service may be extended to accommodate those orders. And every once in awhile a good overseas opportunity becomes available to a utilization tour candidate. You just can't count on it.

You may have choices of duty assignment, but they might not include all those available for assignment at the time, and someone coming off a tour at a less desirable location may have choices offered to him that you will not be offered.

There are ship's general surgeons on carriers and the big Marine landing platforms. If you want to go to a ship as an FP or EM-trained doc, you probably would have a better chance by going to flight surgery and, if you wanted to do the shipboard thing longer, do the Navy occupational medicine residency in Aerospace Medicine. It is two years in length, one spent in a university MPH program and one year clinical, you become eligible to sit the occupational and preventive medicine boards and you also become available for assignment as a Senior Medical Officer, which is a shipboard (not squadron) assignment as a senior flight surgeon. That route is generally considered a career medical officer commitment.

Others can say better the status of specialty retention bonuses; they change, but yes, you can be eligible for retention bonuses if you are eligible to leave, have a specialty eligible for the bonus and are willing to commit to a specific length of contract, usually the longer the contract, the bigger the bonus per year contracted.

Thank you. So you can work as an EM trained flight surgeon? Would you then be paid as EM and work part of your shifts at a hospital and when an aircraft carrier(or some other ship) deploys, work as a flight surgeon or gmo?

 

[The White Coat Investor]

Thank you. So you can work as an EM trained flight surgeon? Would you then be paid as EM and work part of your shifts at a hospital and when an aircraft carrier(or some other ship) deploys, work as a flight surgeon or gmo?

No. You'd be assigned as one or the other. If you do EM training, you should expect to do at least one tour as a pure EM physician before being able to go to flight surgeon school and go play as a flight doc. Probably easier to do the flight surgeon thing then go back into EM residency. But you could do it either way IF you're willing to stay in the military. Flight surgery is a specialty. It might not take as long to get up to speed as a more traditional specialty like FM or EM or IM, but it still requires a certain body of knowledge. You can't do just an EM residency and then be a flight surgeon with zero additional training. The AF course is a few months long.