Masters Degree & HPSP

[Angel]

I have a two questions for persons which are knowlegdeable about the HPSP scholarship.

1. During medical school after 2 years are HPSP recipients promoted to 1st Lieutenant?
2. Does a Masters degree have anything to do with promotions or ranks during medical school?

Thanks in advance for your responses.

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[tomplatz]

All HPSPers except prior service folks are 2LTs. I have a masters too and tried to get to O-2 and was refused. What I was told by AFPC was that it would at 2 years of service time to your captaincy once you graduate. Will find out in a year if that's true. Hope this helps.

 

[Spang]

Prior service makes no difference. I've got 13y active and got out as O-4 and now got the butter-bar on again!

Spang

 

[edmadison]

You only get credit for promotion if your graduate degree is directly related to the study of medicine. I got a big NO on my law degree. I guess you'd have to have a masters or Ph.D. in a biology/chemistry filed to get credit.

Ed

 

[Navy Dive Doc]

You do get credit towards promotion once you are on active duty. 2 years for a masters and 3 years for a PhD. There is some rule that the masters and MD cannot be conferred on the same day, or something of that sort, so that the combined MD/MPH people sometimes get screwed out of credit. If this applies to anyone, I'd look into it deeper, as you might be able to convince your school to give you the MPH early.
I know of a CDR (O-5) aviator who put the butter bar back on for med school, so forget the O-2 thing.