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1. The Multi-year Specialty Pay is only comes into effect after you complete your mandatory active duty period (four years for a three year residency). Does the Incentive Special Pay get disbursed the same way. It is unclear to me whether this is payed to all physicians or just to those who are being "enticed" to stay in an additional year?

2. Can someone explain how the Navy is switching to civilian contractors for some physician billets? Also, if you don't plan on making a career out of the Navy, how could this hurt you?

 

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1. The Multi-year Specialty Pay is only comes into effect after you complete your mandatory active duty period (four years for a three year residency). Does the Incentive Special Pay get disbursed the same way. It is unclear to me whether this is payed to all physicians or just to those who are being "enticed" to stay in an additional year?

2. Can someone explain how the Navy is switching to civilian contractors for some physician billets? Also, if you don't plan on making a career out of the Navy, how could this hurt you?

ISP is for anyone who has finished training in a specialty.

Civilian contractors are just that...they contract civilians to fill billets otherwise filled by an active duty MD....they just get rid of that billet. What this means is that there will be less need for certain specialties, and therefore less for medical officers in the Navy as a whole.