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Throughout many of the military medicine forums I've noticed a prevalent trend regarding attitudes towards Navy GMO tours; that being, unless volunteered for, GMO tours are usually an inconvenience and a detriment to a physicians career, medical training, and specifically the maintenance of advanced skills.
According to many on these forums, while FS and UMO tours provide a physician with many unique military experiences (i.e. going to flight/dive schools) which are attractive to physicians that desire those unique experiences (myself included), they, along with primary care GMO billets, often ****** medical training b/c the vast majority of patients are healthy active duty personnel. (Which makes senseits hard to learn anything substantial from coughs, colds, diarrhea, and rashes.)
My question is, what about the GMO opportunityAssistant Marine Battalion Surgeons? I would presume that being deployed and treating marines with traumatic injuries would be a good opportunity to hone ones medical skillsespecially for someone pursuing a career in EM or Surgery as I am. Although the thought of deploying is far from ideal, it seems to me that if one was going to complete a GMO tour, an Asst. Battalion Surgeon would provide the best opportunity to improve ones medical skills and to care for our men and women in harms way.
Is this an accurate assessment? I would appreciate input from anybody who has a working knowledge on the subject and who could tell me what exactly what this opportunity looks like. Thanks and Gigem.
According to many on these forums, while FS and UMO tours provide a physician with many unique military experiences (i.e. going to flight/dive schools) which are attractive to physicians that desire those unique experiences (myself included), they, along with primary care GMO billets, often ****** medical training b/c the vast majority of patients are healthy active duty personnel. (Which makes senseits hard to learn anything substantial from coughs, colds, diarrhea, and rashes.)
My question is, what about the GMO opportunityAssistant Marine Battalion Surgeons? I would presume that being deployed and treating marines with traumatic injuries would be a good opportunity to hone ones medical skillsespecially for someone pursuing a career in EM or Surgery as I am. Although the thought of deploying is far from ideal, it seems to me that if one was going to complete a GMO tour, an Asst. Battalion Surgeon would provide the best opportunity to improve ones medical skills and to care for our men and women in harms way.
Is this an accurate assessment? I would appreciate input from anybody who has a working knowledge on the subject and who could tell me what exactly what this opportunity looks like. Thanks and Gigem.