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Good day to everyone,
I'm currently an active duty Hospital Corpsman (HM2) with 9 years of service, and I'm finally ready to pursue being an MD.
I originally specialized as a PMT a few years ago (Prev Med Tech, 68S for you Army cats) with the intentions of crossing over to the dark side as an Environmental Health Officer or Entomologist, but for a myriad of reasons, I've turned away from that path and am now fully committed to becoming an MD. I am hell-bent on going to USUHS, and though it looks like the road will be a long one, I won't be swayed.
My question is, are there any other enlisted personnel out there that made it to USUHS while still being on active duty??
I've read dozens of testimonials of people that made it while being an Active Duty Officer, and of those that were enlisted, got out of the military and then returned through USUHS, but I have yet to read anything from someone in a similar position to myself.
I should note, before coming to this decision, I reenlisted for an additional 6 years earlier this year, which will put me at 15 years enlisted all said and done.
Obviously I'm looking to matriculate to USUHS while still being on active duty, but is this really all a big pipe dream? My biggest concerns are the prerequisites for USUHS, in that they require several classes to be completed face to face, no distance learning/online credits allowed. I see no where on the admission requirements stating the actual undergrad degree must be completed face to face or majority face to face, so is there anyone out there that did this; completed their bachelors online, then completed the other specific pre-reqs at a traditional brick and mortar school, while on active duty?
Also I had been looking at the Enlisted to Medical Degree Preparatory Program (EMDP2), unfortunately there's no way I could complete a bachelors before my 10 year mark, which is the TIS cutoff for the program.
Any guidance, wisdom, testimonials, hell even sarcasm welcome!
I'm currently an active duty Hospital Corpsman (HM2) with 9 years of service, and I'm finally ready to pursue being an MD.
I originally specialized as a PMT a few years ago (Prev Med Tech, 68S for you Army cats) with the intentions of crossing over to the dark side as an Environmental Health Officer or Entomologist, but for a myriad of reasons, I've turned away from that path and am now fully committed to becoming an MD. I am hell-bent on going to USUHS, and though it looks like the road will be a long one, I won't be swayed.
My question is, are there any other enlisted personnel out there that made it to USUHS while still being on active duty??
I've read dozens of testimonials of people that made it while being an Active Duty Officer, and of those that were enlisted, got out of the military and then returned through USUHS, but I have yet to read anything from someone in a similar position to myself.
I should note, before coming to this decision, I reenlisted for an additional 6 years earlier this year, which will put me at 15 years enlisted all said and done.
Obviously I'm looking to matriculate to USUHS while still being on active duty, but is this really all a big pipe dream? My biggest concerns are the prerequisites for USUHS, in that they require several classes to be completed face to face, no distance learning/online credits allowed. I see no where on the admission requirements stating the actual undergrad degree must be completed face to face or majority face to face, so is there anyone out there that did this; completed their bachelors online, then completed the other specific pre-reqs at a traditional brick and mortar school, while on active duty?
Also I had been looking at the Enlisted to Medical Degree Preparatory Program (EMDP2), unfortunately there's no way I could complete a bachelors before my 10 year mark, which is the TIS cutoff for the program.
Any guidance, wisdom, testimonials, hell even sarcasm welcome!