HPSP candidate interested in aerospace medicine. I want to make sure I have this straight.
For flight surgeon it seems you do a 1 year internship of what I assume is mostly internal medicine followed whatever branch's training for flight surgeon (Navy, AF, etc.) and then you essentially go to work. Do I have that right? Would I specifically have to do a military residency for this? I know for military RAMS they require to have experience as a flight surgeon first before you can apply but civilian residencies have no such req, i can go straight out of med school (and mayo even has a fellowship!). I've actually read job prospects for this are quite good bc preventive/occupational medicine is picking up steam and most physicians who practice this are in their golden years, meaning they'll be needing incoming folks to pick it up when they retire.
I know people keep saying to do another residency, i.e. family med, but that seems like LOT of time in residency. Would I do the 1 year internship, work as a flight surgeon (for how long?), do something like an internal med residency, then turn right around and do an aerospace residency? That just seems like a lot of CYA, though there is one joint internal med/aerospace residency that might seem to satisfy these concerns.
Would it be possible to do this overseas? Is there any real difference in working life between someone who just does the flight surgeon training and someone who does the RAM?