Questions about the Military Match

[PHD_2007]

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Hello All,
I am a third year medical student and I recently received an Army HPSP. I have a few questions about the Military Match.... particularly what should I be doing now to prepare for it. I was told by a fellow student that the Military Match is done by Dec...is this true? Also, does the Military use the ERAS System and the ranking process. In addition, should I be contacting residency directors right now for information about their programs. Any information would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for your help.👍
~PhD2007

 

[BigNavyPedsGuy]

Hello All,
I am a third year medical student and I recently received an Army HPSP. I have a few questions about the Military Match.... particularly what should I be doing now to prepare for it. I was told by a fellow student that the Military Match is done by Dec...is this true? Also, does the Military use the ERAS System and the ranking process. In addition, should I be contacting residency directors right now for information about their programs. Any information would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for your help.👍
~PhD2007

I'm sure an army person will come behind with Army specifics. Yes, the military match is in December. I'm not trying to belittle this post, but I find it stunning that someone can get a quarter of the way through their 3rd year of medical school, have 430+ SDN posts and not know that the military match is in December. I just can't believe how little information some people work with. The military system is complicated and you've got to learn it to succeed in it.

In the near future you need to look into scheduling your ADTs to do audition rotations during the first part of your 4th year leading up to the match.

 

[PHD_2007]

Thanks for the info and the heads up. No worries about "belittling" the post. 👍

 

[PHD_2007]

Anyone interview at BAMC or Walter Reed for Internal Med? Any info would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

 

[sparkplug]

Oh!..I have some questions here too..how many choices can we choose. Can we rank any thing we like as: surg 1st, Derm 2nd, IM..lilke that or how it realy work.

May be: we can rank like 1st. surgery..then we rank again locations then 2nd choice Derm.then locations?

Thanks

 

[psychbender]

Oh!..I have some questions here too..how many choices can we choose. Can we rank any thing we like as: surg 1st, Derm 2nd, IM..lilke that or how it realy work.

May be: we can rank like 1st. surgery..then we rank again locations then 2nd choice Derm.then locations?

Thanks

Five choices. One specialty goal. You rank all of the locations for that specialty goal. If this is less than 5, then you rank a transitional program, then can list locations for other specialties. So, no, you cannot rank Surgery 1, Derm 2, etc. You can go EM as your specialty goal, then rank the locations: 1) MAMC, 2) BAMC, 3) Darnall, 4) Transitional WRAMC, 5) Derm WRAMC.

You should set up your rotations for fourth year in January of your third year.

 

[sparkplug]

Thank you very much for the info. So, if we do have to make only one speciality choice.. what if you didn't much to that speciality? since you didn't put a second choice or so..do they put you any where they want or just throw you to GMO?

Thanks

 

[psychbender]

Thank you very much for the info. So, if we do have to make only one speciality choice.. what if you didn't much to that speciality? since you didn't put a second choice or so..do they put you any where they want or just throw you to GMO?

Thanks

Generally, if you fail to match into your specialty of choice, you are given a Transitional internship. After the match, a list of all of the specialties with vacant slots (usually FM, IM, Psych, Peds) will be released, and you may go through the rebuttal board process and ask for one of those residencies, in lieu of a Transitional internship (with likely subsequent GMO tour). You may reapply during your Transitional year, but if you are applying for something competitive in the Army, then you are likely to do a GMO tour first, as most slots are already reserved for medical students, with the few remaining being fought over by interns and returning GMOs (and, sometimes, docs from other specialties desiring a second residency).

 

[sparkplug]

Thank you so much psychbender. I really appriciate it.

 

[PHD_2007]

Hey all,
How competitive are Army Internal Medicine Residencies? Also, how competitive are Fellowships like GI, Cards, Nephro? Thanks!!! 👍

 

[psychbender]

Hey all,
How competitive are Army Internal Medicine Residencies? Also, how competitive are Fellowships like GI, Cards, Nephro? Thanks!!! 👍

The residencies themselves are not competitive. The Army never fills them all. The fellowships I am sure are fairly competitive, though I do not know specifics, as I'm not IM (and I am finally finished with wards!).

 

[Neogenesis]

up yours psychbender! I'm only half way through my first of three.

sorry about the hi-jack, now back to our regularly scheduled thread.

 

[psychbender]

up yours psychbender! I'm only half way through my first of three.

sorry about the hi-jack, now back to our regularly scheduled thread.

After much haggling, I was able to get them to change my third month of Medicine to SICU (us Trannies here only have to do 2 blocks of wards, they gave me a third for some unknown reason). Of course, that means I now have three consecutive blocks of ICU of some sort, but it still beats the wards.

Good luck on the wards. Hope it doesn't suck too hard. 😀