Military Residencies for non-military

[La Fiera]

Are there any FP/Wilderness/Rural residencies out there for non-military?
Thanks!

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[texdrake]

No.

You could do rotations at a VA but their are no military residencies for non-military personnel

 

[csullivan]

Actually the AF does offer Civilians residency spots. The process is a bit complicated but an AF medical recruiter can explain it. The AF is the only branch that currently offers residency spots to non-military.

 

[kaikai128]

Actually the AF does offer Civilians residency spots. The process is a bit complicated but an AF medical recruiter can explain it. The AF is the only branch that currently offers residency spots to non-military.

Do you know, are these spots given to military first and only to civilian if they are not filled with their own students?

 

[csullivan]

For Internal Medicine it was explained to me by a Col. Downs who heads the IM dept. at Lackland. It is a point based system with points awarded in 5 areas. One of those areas is military service so if you have time in or come from a military program you are more likely to get a spot. However, I know for certain that a civilian can match with the AF in IM. I did match this past year with the AF. I turned down the offer though as seems to be a general mood of the board found out: the recruiter was not completely honest with information. This comes from speaking to the doctors once I got into the interview phase who were much more open and honest with me. They do have a retention problem and the only person I spoke with who knew for certain he would stay was the Col. Everyone else was either getting out or seriously considering. That was a huge red flag in my mind. Which is unfortunate as I was very impressed with every physician I spoke to while at Lackland and Keesler.

 

[csullivan]

Addendum. One of the areas you get points in was research. I have a graduate degree so made up a lot of lost military points in that area. So that might be why I was accepted. It was never mentioned that military personnel took priorty over civilian except by the "extra" points they got for having service time in.