GMO and Deployment questions

[AlmostADoctor1996]

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Hi all,

1. How does one end up as a GMO? My current understanding is that if I fail to match into a military residency then I become a GMO. Is this correct? I would imagine that the best ways of ensuring that I match into a residency is scoring well on the Step exams, preforming well at DCC/BOLC, and preforming well at away rotations.

2. Say I match into a military residency, in all likelihood I wouldn’t deploy until after I finish my training, correct?

3. I’m just trying to figure out how time commitment works. I understand that I owe 8 years of active duty. If I chose to do a 6 year residency, I owe 6 years back to the Army. My 6 years during residency are active duty, then is my payback after residency 2 years of active duty and then 4 years of reserves?

Thank you all for your help! I appreciate it!

 

[WernickeDO]

Hi all,

1. How does one end up as a GMO? My current understanding is that if I fail to match into a military residency then I become a GMO. Is this correct? I would imagine that the best ways of ensuring that I match into a residency is scoring well on the Step exams, preforming well at DCC/BOLC, and preforming well at away rotations.

2. Say I match into a military residency, in all likelihood I wouldn’t deploy until after I finish my training, correct?

3. I’m just trying to figure out how time commitment works. I understand that I owe 8 years of active duty. If I chose to do a 6 year residency, I owe 6 years back to the Army. My 6 years during residency are active duty, then is my payback after residency 2 years of active duty and then 4 years of reserves?

Thank you all for your help! I appreciate it!

1: You become a GMO most typically after completing a TY internship and then failing to match/choosing to not apply to residency after your TY. Performing well on your steps and rotations are important but by no means guarantees of matching to a residency. There are several factors that you have no control over, like prior service applicants, people who know people, and the tyranny of small numbers. I doubt that DCC/BOLC performance will matter at all in GME selection.

2: Correct, if you are in GME you are essentially non-deployable.

3: If you take a 4-year HPSP then you owe 4 active and 4 reserve. You will accrue more active duty service obligation (ADSO) if you do a longer residency; e.g. anything greater than 4 years. While in residency you are technically reserves. So if you do internal medicine, you are looking at 3 years residency (reserves) followed by 4 years active duty and then 1 year on IRR. That's a very basic example that can be affected by things like fellowship and GMO time.

 

[AlmostADoctor1996]

1: You become a GMO most typically after completing a TY internship and then failing to match/choosing to not apply to residency after your TY. Performing well on your steps and rotations are important but by no means guarantees of matching to a residency. There are several factors that you have no control over, like prior service applicants, people who know people, and the tyranny of small numbers. I doubt that DCC/BOLC performance will matter at all in GME selection.

2: Correct, if you are in GME you are essentially non-deployable.

3: If you take a 4-year HPSP then you owe 4 active and 4 reserve. You will accrue more active duty service obligation (ADSO) if you do a longer residency; e.g. anything greater than 4 years. While in residency you are technically reserves. So if you do internal medicine, you are looking at 3 years residency (reserves) followed by 4 years active duty and then 1 year on IRR. That's a very basic example that can be affected by things like fellowship and GMO time.

Thank you for the response. My recruiter told me that residency is considered active duty, not reserves. Is my recruiter wrong?

 

[Matthew9Thirtyfive]

Thank you for the response. My recruiter told me that residency is considered active duty, not reserves. Is my recruiter wrong?

If you do a military residency, you will get active duty benefits and pay. That's probably what he meant. But it doesn't count towards your active duty payback. If you do a civilian residency, you are just in the reserves and will not get military pay or benefits, and it also will not count towards payback.

 

[ArmyTiger]

If you do a military residency, you will get active duty benefits and pay. That's probably what he meant. But it doesn't count towards your active duty payback. If you do a civilian residency, you are just in the reserves and will not get military pay or benefits, and it also will not count towards payback.

Small correction, Civilian Deferred is in the reserves, Civilian Sponsored is full active duty pay and benefits. Both exist, but it shouldn't really matter to you unless you end up in one of those positions.

 

[Matthew9Thirtyfive]

Small correction, Civilian Deferred is in the reserves, Civilian Sponsored is full active duty pay and benefits. Both exist, but it shouldn't really matter to you unless you end up in one of those positions.

Good catch.