NHSC--Anyone going to guam?

[mojoe]

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I start D1 in the fall. I applied for a nhsc scholarship. But I have no idea what it's like to do nhsc after school. I've read their informational book and looked at their website, but I haven't met anyone who has actually done it, except for my friends' dad who worked in alaska 20 years ago. Oh yeah, I found a thread on sdn where a bunch of premeds obsessed about whether or not they were getting the scholarship. But that was lame.

What i want to know is what un-lame dentist people think. dental students who are planning on working for nhsc. What kinds of choice do you have in where you go your first year out? Are you planning on gpr or aegd or pedo? or nothing post dds/dmd? are you expecting to work in more than one location? i'm guessing you're happy with the financial part of the scholarship? are you honestly planning on working for 4 years or for longer for them?

Any other random comments about national health service corps scholarships or repayment programs would be nice.

 

[GTchick]

Hey there. I am a dental student on the NHSC scholarship. From the NHSC website you can look at job postings to get an idea of what is out there now for scholars. The list does change though. The summer before I started dental school there was a lot of stuff in the southeast but now there is a ton in Alaska. I am hoping to move back to the southeast or at least stay on the east coast. I know a dentist who went through school as a NHSC scholar and took a job in Maine and has been there ever since and he will be retiring soon so some people do stay at their sites forever but that does not necessarily mean you are with the corps the whole time. He left the corps when they wanted him to go to another site. I want to work for the Public Health Service after my 4 year commitment to the NHSC or become the director of a dental program at a community health center. Either way the NHSC is a great stepping stone. I am only a D2 (for 2 more weeks thank goodness) so i don't know if I will do a GPR but probably not.