AEGD question

[hattrack04]

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I know that the AEGD residency does not count towards your payback, but is it true that it now does not even count as neutral time? If you took the AEGD, would this mean that you would owe 5 more years after completing the residency?

 

[Omahahahaha]

It's a neutral year.

 

[eric275]

I know that the AEGD residency does not count towards your payback, but is it true that it now does not even count as neutral time? If you took the AEGD, would this mean that you would owe 5 more years after completing the residency?

If you had a four year scholarship and did a year AEGD you would owe four years after you complete your AEGD.

 

[BQuad]

Where did you hear that it might require payback? If it came from a recruiter, than they might have changed the rules again. Generally, if they do change the rules again, they only change it for new applicants for the HPSP. So if you got your HPSP while it was a neutral year, then it'll be a neutral year for you. I was in the last class that got the AEGD as a free year.

 

[Smills91]

Where did you hear that it might require payback? If it came from a recruiter, than they might have changed the rules again. Generally, if they do change the rules again, they only change it for new applicants for the HPSP. So if you got your HPSP while it was a neutral year, then it'll be a neutral year for you. I was in the last class that got the AEGD as a free year.

Aren't there one and two year AEGD's? I'm pretty sure the 1 year was explained to me as being a neutral year, but I thought the two year was 1 neutral year + 1 payback year? Is that correct?

 

[Reed1978]

pretty certain that a 2 year AEGD + 4 year HPSP = 6 years in Army. That's direct from Col. Kay Malone.

 

[eric275]

pretty certain that a 2 year AEGD + 4 year HPSP = 6 years in Army. That's direct from Col. Kay Malone.

I'm currently doing a clerkship at the Navy's two year AEGD. Since the two year program is considered a specialty in the miltary as with endo, prostho, etc. the two years spent in the program will pay back two of the HPSP years. But by recieving specialty training you add one year of obligation for every year of your program.

So if you are on a four year HPSP scholarship and accept two years of specialty training, 2 year AEGD (Comp dentistry), you would end up spending a total of six years fufilling your obligation.