Is the Uniformed Services University good?

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I know you will need to serve time in the military, but after that can you get a normal job as a doctor? Will hospitals see that you went to the uniformed services university and deny you a job? Will you seem less competitive?

 

[Erald Coil]

Yes.
No.
No.

Of course you can "get a normal (I'm guessing you mean "civilian") job as a doctor" after graduating from USUHS, completing your military residency program and/or fellowship, and fulfilling your service commitment. I don't know why you might think that being a USUHS graduate would be a competitive disadvantage, but I can assure you that it is not. I'm only an MS-2 at USUHS, though, so other SDN members would be more qualified to comment on post-service transition to civilian health care settings.

 

[pgg]

USUHS is a fine school. I went there, graduated almost exactly 10 years ago. You'll learn what you should learn as a med student, you'll live well while you're there, and you'll exit without any debt.

The risk of USUHS is that it obligates you to a military residency (there are essentially NO civilian deferrals for USUHS grads), starting 5-10 years from the day you apply to USUHS. That military run residency may offer excellent or mediocre training, but you don't know what specialty you'll end up in (even if right now you think you do, odds are very high you'll change your mind at least once). It worked out great for me. Some luck was involved. How comfortable are you betting that the military residency you ultimately want will (a) have a spot for you, (b) offer top level training ... in 2022?

Once you've finished residency, nobody will ever care where you went to medical school.


What's your background? Any prior military service?

 

[jabreal00]

As long as one graduate from a US accredited allopathic and many osteopathic medical schools they will not have any problems finding jobs after their military obligation. Now you have to decide whether you want to stay 20 years in the military or not. The obligation for USUSH is 7 years. This does not include residency or fellowship time as active duty. So do the math, the minimum residency is three years. One would owe 7 years and that puts one at 10 years of active duty time. That is assuming they go straight through without any hitches. Medical school counts but only if they get to 20, they are credited an additional 4 years.

Just something to think about.