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Greetings,
I am currently a cadet applying to medical schools this summer and weighing in on whether or not to utilize the HPSP scholarship. I just had a few questions to those who are in medical school with HPSP or those who have already graduated medical school and are currently in the Active Army.
a) What are the summer training exercises like for HPSP students? Is it field training or is it more medicine based?
b) What are deployments like in wartime for any type of doctor? I'm sure it varies for family physicians, ortho surgeons, trauma surgeons, etc., but I was hoping to get a baseline of what it's like?
c) When it's peacetime or your unit is in garrison, are you just a regular physician at a hospital on post (assuming you aren't teaching)?
d) Lastly, do you get a "wish list" of sorts for where you're stationed? Or is it up to the wants and needs of the Army?
I am currently a cadet applying to medical schools this summer and weighing in on whether or not to utilize the HPSP scholarship. I just had a few questions to those who are in medical school with HPSP or those who have already graduated medical school and are currently in the Active Army.
a) What are the summer training exercises like for HPSP students? Is it field training or is it more medicine based?
b) What are deployments like in wartime for any type of doctor? I'm sure it varies for family physicians, ortho surgeons, trauma surgeons, etc., but I was hoping to get a baseline of what it's like?
c) When it's peacetime or your unit is in garrison, are you just a regular physician at a hospital on post (assuming you aren't teaching)?
d) Lastly, do you get a "wish list" of sorts for where you're stationed? Or is it up to the wants and needs of the Army?