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Thanks everyone who is providing information for prospective enlistees! I think it is very important to know what you are getting into, good and bad.
I have a few things I'd like to get some more clarity on.
1.) A lot of people who are unhappy with their HPSP decisions reference skill atrophy. Can someone give some anecdotal evidence? Or really just anything to paint a picture for us. For instance, did you learn how to diagnose a knee injury as a torn ACL vs. PCL and forgot what that meant 4 years later? Learned a stitch for a surgery and forgot how to do it? I mean, what I'm wondering is if I do this and find out it sucks and then join civilian medicine, will my doctoring skills be an embarrassment or am I just looking at a re-learning period that is doable. Yea, that sentence was 1000 words long.
2.) As a follow up, are army residency completing doctors looked down upon in the civilian job market?
3.) Another big one is GMOs. Does anyone have a link to a website that has the actual stats on this for the branches? And also, if you make good board scores and have good grades, are you looking at a much better chance of not doing a GMO? I ask this because interrupting training between med school and residency sounds like a terrible idea.
4.) Yea, a doc comes out of med school as an officer. After residency, I think I'm reading that they are a fairly high ranked officer possibly. (Major?) So, I don't know really anything about the military except that I have always wanted to serve in it so excuse my ignorance... but.. it would seem to me that if I were a non-medical member of the military and a "medical" officer came along, I would think I might not respect them as much since they don't fight. Maybe this is not the case...
Thanks!
I have a few things I'd like to get some more clarity on.
1.) A lot of people who are unhappy with their HPSP decisions reference skill atrophy. Can someone give some anecdotal evidence? Or really just anything to paint a picture for us. For instance, did you learn how to diagnose a knee injury as a torn ACL vs. PCL and forgot what that meant 4 years later? Learned a stitch for a surgery and forgot how to do it? I mean, what I'm wondering is if I do this and find out it sucks and then join civilian medicine, will my doctoring skills be an embarrassment or am I just looking at a re-learning period that is doable. Yea, that sentence was 1000 words long.
2.) As a follow up, are army residency completing doctors looked down upon in the civilian job market?
3.) Another big one is GMOs. Does anyone have a link to a website that has the actual stats on this for the branches? And also, if you make good board scores and have good grades, are you looking at a much better chance of not doing a GMO? I ask this because interrupting training between med school and residency sounds like a terrible idea.
4.) Yea, a doc comes out of med school as an officer. After residency, I think I'm reading that they are a fairly high ranked officer possibly. (Major?) So, I don't know really anything about the military except that I have always wanted to serve in it so excuse my ignorance... but.. it would seem to me that if I were a non-medical member of the military and a "medical" officer came along, I would think I might not respect them as much since they don't fight. Maybe this is not the case...
Thanks!