Congrats, Portier!! You've got a job for next year! Even though it's not 100% what you wanted, I remember talking to you and you saying that this is a very viable backup and you'd be happy with it. I think you're right on about the military needing doctors at this point. In any case, you are 2-3 months ahead the rest of us when it comes to knowing where you're headed after graduation. They're lucky to have you.
You're right. It's good to be set up already. I'm also busy figuring out how my life is going to "be."
The plan is: internship (1 year), deployment (2-3 years), residency (3 years), redeployment (2-3 years), retirement eligibility/fellowship.
This pattern puts me at my 20 year mark at the same time I'd be "ready" to do a fellowship in the Navy's eyes. We'll all be 10 years older, and I may not even want a fellowship anymore, but in any case that's the timeline.
The TY is prety good at Portsmouth, I liked the program diretor the best out of all three I met. The only thing that really hurts is thinking I wasn't good enough to get into the pediatric spot. Inferiority is a bitch.
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The upside/downside:
1) I'll get my residency straight through, but I'll be a 35 year old intern/r1 the second time.
2) I get to deploy and earn tax free wages, which can be sweet cash, but I'll be in the desert proabably 9,000 miles away from a 66 corvette.
3) I get more ribbons and medals. No downside.
4) I earn time towards retirement, but not specialized.
5) I get to go to the sandbox which is like a badge of honor. (How long were you in the Navy? You didn't deploy? Weirdo!)
6) After deployment I'll get 3 years in one place and finally time to maybe start a family...but first I have to convince babyruth to divorce. (jk) I can at least get a dog.
7) With a TY if I decide to change my choice of fields I can apply the TY to SOME other specialties. FP? IM? I don't know.
8) I'll get to treat trauma, but I'll have to treat trauma.
I'm getting over the disapointment...and it's making me pay more attention in FP clinic to know that I'll be doing this for the next 4 years.