Air National Guard scholarships

[keithslc]

I am an accepted medical student who is interested in the ANG scholarship. This seems like a good alternative to the HPSP if you want to control where you live. I have a couple of questions for anyone who is currently taking this route:

Do the drills interfere with your studies while in first and second year?

Exactly how much is the stipend during medical school and do they just pay you as a lieutenant or also cover tuition and books?

Do you have to take a military residency?


thanks in advance......

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[MountaineerDoc]

This tread should help;

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=164424

 

[iatrosB]

This tread should help;

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=164424

You seem to know a lot about the program. Do you know if the residency scholarship program works for peds as well or is it just FP and EM. Thanks.

 

[Croooz]

You might control where you live but once you are activated and in Iraq what then? With a smaller military there will be more deployments for the reserves and national guard...fact of life. If not Iraq there will always be something. Be careful what your reasons are for accepting the ANG scholarship...it's not very different from HPSP.

 

[MountaineerDoc]

You might control where you live but once you are activated and in Iraq what then? With a smaller military there will be more deployments for the reserves and national guard...fact of life. If not Iraq there will always be something. Be careful what your reasons are for accepting the ANG scholarship...it's not very different from HPSP.

Depends on the scholarship you are referring to. If POST-residency, which more than likely you would have completed in FP, IM, or EM, then yes you will at some point be granted the opportunity to get the worst farmers tan you could imagine.

However, if you are signed on as a medical student, then you are non-qualified, and therefore non-deployable as anything. Thus, CNN or FOX is as close to the action you will get during this time.

In addition post completion of medical school you can go into whatever residency you heart desires. If it is not in the area they need (right now FP, IM, EM, and one more can't remember) then you don't get the extra $, just the right to be called to duty. Same applies if you just take the student loan repayment option too though.

I would therefore disagree that this is anything like the HPSP.

Disclaimer; I am NOT a recruiter, and if I didn't have 12 years in towards retirement I would not venture down this road even if Jennifer Aniston was leading the way...

 

[MountaineerDoc]

You seem to know a lot about the program. Do you know if the residency scholarship program works for peds as well or is it just FP and EM. Thanks.

No Peds, but I believe you can still take the student loan repayment option and will therefore incur an obligation. However, every state NG (AF or Army) has their own needs.

 

[Croooz]

There is more flexibility in picking your specialty BUT after all is said and done you are still at the mercy of your assignment. Not a bad deal. Just not a completely free ride. That was my point. Whether you are National Guard or Reserves or Active Duty the sands of Iraq will still be the same.

 

[MountaineerDoc]

There is more flexibility in picking your specialty BUT after all is said and done you are still at the mercy of your assignment. Not a bad deal. Just not a completely free ride. That was my point. Whether you are National Guard or Reserves or Active Duty the sands of Iraq will still be the same.

I would agree, Uncle Sam is the Vegas house...