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I'm in my intern year with a 4 year ADSC. I have absolutely decided that I do not want to be a doctor. I am certain of this so to those that will advise me to stick it out, finish intern year, take step 3, I appreciate your advice, but my focus is to FOREVER leave medicine. I am not interested in using medicine as a backup plan.
My questions are- how do I go about this? I have heard about "resigning commission", but I don't completely know what this means. Could someone please explain.
Lastly, can I request that the military use me in a capacity other than healthcare? I have no more interest in healthcare whatsoever. I would prefer serving out my time in an admin or "desk job" role, a simple 9-5 job.

 

[AF M4]

I'm in my intern year with a 4 year ADSC. I have absolutely decided that I do not want to be a doctor. I am certain of this so to those that will advise me to stick it out, finish intern year, take step 3, I appreciate your advice, but my focus is to FOREVER leave medicine. I am not interested in using medicine as a backup plan.
My questions are- how do I go about this? I have heard about "resigning commission", but I don't completely know what this means. Could someone please explain.
Lastly, can I request that the military use me in a capacity other than healthcare? I have no more interest in healthcare whatsoever. I would prefer serving out my time in an admin or "desk job" role, a simple 9-5 job.

Lawyer. Go talk to. Do not take major career advice from Internet forums, and that's no knock on the people here. You owe it to yourself to get professional advice. The end.

 

[AF_PedsBoy]

Agreed, that this should be followed up with an actual professional - even if correct, advice here is anecdotal as circumstances vary. In addition you don't get to pick what they place you into in the unusual case they let you out of the med field, seeing as we're all at, what, 85% manning right now? I imagine they would place you where they need you... which probably means the worst job available... I suggest you try and power through the intern blues, especially since there are a lot more civilian opportunities with intern year done, and there's always GMO, which while incredibly frustrating at times, is definitely a step up... (P.S. and when I say opportunities, there are other things like work with drug companies, admin, etc, med law, etc. that let you use the last 8 years of your life without necessarily having to do whatever turned you off of medicine)

 

[NavyFP]

I'm in my intern year with a 4 year ADSC. I have absolutely decided that I do not want to be a doctor. I am certain of this so to those that will advise me to stick it out, finish intern year, take step 3, I appreciate your advice, but my focus is to FOREVER leave medicine. I am not interested in using medicine as a backup plan.
My questions are- how do I go about this? I have heard about "resigning commission", but I don't completely know what this means. Could someone please explain.
Lastly, can I request that the military use me in a capacity other than healthcare? I have no more interest in healthcare whatsoever. I would prefer serving out my time in an admin or "desk job" role, a simple 9-5 job.

I think I answered this question on the first string you posted. It is still good advice, so I will add it again.
If you are hell bound determined to quit the field of medicine this is what you need to do.

1) Submit a letter of resignation from your internship program to your commanding officer. CC your program director and the director of GME in your facility. In conjunction with this letter you should submit a lateral transfer request into a different Army community for which your individual talents would prove useful. I don't know what the Army instruction for lateral transfer is but find it and learn the mechanism for a transfer.

2) Request the Army equivalent of Mast. This will give you the opportunity to speak with the CO/CG directly and make your grievences known.

3) Should you continue to hit a brick wall, write your Congressman and include copies of the above letters and written denials. Make your case that you have a strong desire to fulfill your committment to the Army, but that it would be a disservice to the Army, your future potential patients, and yourself for you to continue on the medical track.

In the meantime, you should continue to perform your duties as an intern to the best of your abilities. DO NOT flagrantly violate Army polices or protocols. Getting yourself into administrative trouble will only prolong your pain. Internship should only be 12 months long. They can make it longer. The last thing you want to do is get an other than honorable discharge. They can follow you forever and limit your future opportunities. Openly exposing your current relationship will only get your GF transfered to another part of the world.

 

[sethco]

Something about this thread is very familiar

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=566943

or how about...

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=563445

 

[Mirror Form]

Just a few thoughts:

First, you're going to have to pay back your ADSC is one form or another. I know you don't want to be a doctor, but I assume you probably don't want to be an officer in med service corp either. So finishing up your intern year and then doing a four year GMO to get out of the military might be your best option.

Second, finishing internship and getting licensed to practice medicine can open some non-medical doors for you. Also, it will look much better on a job application then quitting during intern year.

Third, there are options for doctors who don't want to see patients. Pathology, diagnostic radiology, etc are options.

 

[Perrotfish]

I would prefer serving out my time in an admin or "desk job" role, a simple 9-5 job.

This set off some alarm bells for me. Isn't the Army pushing for every single officer to have done at least one tour in one of the war zones? Is a simple '9-5 job' really an option here?

Maybe the OP is willing to put in his deployment and there's no problem here, but I just wanted to clarify.