What the FMF qualification is like meaning what do you have to go through and responsibilities of a

[MoGhazidoc1990]

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Hey everyone I wanted to ask everyone who has had experience with FMF what do you have to do for the 13 month process to achieve your badge? Meaning what training and qualifications you you can get

What are the on base and combat zone responsibilities of a ER trauma physician or trauama surgeon?

Do DMO actually get to dive or are they just along the medical side of things and is Airborne school possible?

When not deployed how to military physicians keep their skills sharp? practice in civilian trauma centers maybe?

I want a career in the navy and fmf and marines.that put me as close to the casualties as possible. like what dr.Richard jadick or dr. James cole did. What can the navy offer.

I have read about certain fellowship programs ie shock trauma center Baltimore offering trauma surgical fellowships to ER physicians. Do you lose your ER board license or do you just gain a board of surgery certification after completing the fellowship program.

What kind of billets do they have for FMF surgeons with Force recon and or MARSOC? are there any billets where a doctor can serve fat forward?

Thanks
Mohammad

 

[Shikima]

If you want this, become a paramedic, a Corpsman (or L500 or whatever it is called now) and try out for MARSOC. Be sure you're a triathalete to successfully complete the course.

 

[pgg]

Slow down ...

Where are you in training now? Pre med? Med school? In the US? US citizen?

 

[WernickeDO]

OP, this is the 4th or 5th thread you have started that asks a variation on the same question. You want to know about how you can be a doctor in the Navy that is as close to the "action" as possible. You keep getting the same responses but it's almost like you think someone is going to come and give you a different answer.

If you want to be in combat, withdraw from medical school right now, become a combat medic, try to get picked up for SF medic (18D).

Do you read the news at all? There is a minimal footprint in Iraq and AFG right now. There are not many combat deployments to be had. Emulating Dr Jadick will have to wait for the next conflict.

You can do schools in the military (dive, airborne) but they are at the needs of your unit. If you are with a line unit then this sort of training is possible, if you are practicing medicine full time in a hospital not so much.

Military trauma surgeons do not work in civilian centers unless they're moonlighting.

You cannot go from EM trained to a trauma surgery fellowship, that's ludicrous.

Since you are an IMG, focus on graduating medical school and completing a residency. You are not eligible to join the military as a doc until you do.

In reading your posts you do not seem to have a clear vision as to what life in the military for a physician is like. I think you have seen a few too many movies.

 

[pgg]

OP, this is the 4th or 5th thread you have started that asks a variation on the same question.

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In reading your posts you do not seem to have a clear vision as to what life in the military for a physician is like. I think you have seen a few too many movies.

Ah, I remember him now.


OP, you're way too interested in the bling (getting the FMF pin is 100% incidental to doing a tour with the Marines) and the supposed glamour of it all. Wanting to serve is commendable.

For now though, like WernickeDO wrote, you need to get through training before the military is even an option.

 

[MoGhazidoc1990]

We r nicked maybe your right I don't know maybe I am having a different idea of the military and sorry for posting different variations of the same question not truly intentional I just thought I was asking about different options maybe being a surgeon in a FRSS is still pretty bad ass.

 

[MoGhazidoc1990]

Sorry last post meant for wernicke DO

 

[MoGhazidoc1990]

OP, this is the 4th or

OP, this is the 4th or 5th thread you have started that asks a variation on the same question. You want to know about how you can be a doctor in the Navy that is as close to the "action" as possible. You keep getting the same responses but it's almost like you think someone is going to come and give you a different answer.

If you want to be in combat, withdraw from medical school right now, become a combat medic, try to get picked up for SF medic (18D).

Do you read the news at all? There is a minimal footprint in Iraq and AFG right now. There are not many combat deployments to be had. Emulating Dr Jadick will have to wait for the next conflict.

You can do schools in the military (dive, airborne) but they are at the needs of your unit. If you are with a line unit then this sort of training is possible, if you are practicing medicine full time in a hospital not so much.

Military trauma surgeons do not work in civilian centers unless they're moonlighting.

You cannot go from EM trained to a trauma surgery fellowship, that's ludicrous.

Since you are an IMG, focus on graduating medical school and completing a residency. You are not eligible to join the military as a doc until you do.

In reading your posts you do not seem to have a clear vision as to what life in the military for a physician is like. I think you have seen a few too many movies.

FYI this is the fellowship I was talking about
http://umm.edu/programs/shock-traum...ergency-medicine-and-critical-care-fellowship

 

[Shikima]

Many notions you have been romanticized by the media and movies.

God knows, I've fallen for those same thoughts. I don't think there is a soul who hasn't on this forum.
The reality is, for what little prestige you gain from mil service there is much suck to embrace well before.

 

[WernickeDO]

FYI this is the fellowship I was talking about
http://umm.edu/programs/shock-traum...ergency-medicine-and-critical-care-fellowship

That is a critical care fellowship for EM docs that places a heavy emphasis on caring for critical surgical patients. That leads to becoming board certified as a critical care EM doc, not as a trauma surgeon. You don't spend 3 years training as an EM doc and then do a 2 year fellowship and morph into a surgeon.

 

[Shikima]

That is a critical care fellowship for EM docs that places a heavy emphasis on caring for critical surgical patients. That leads to becoming board certified as a critical care EM doc, not as a trauma surgeon. You don't spend 3 years training as an EM doc and then do a 2 year fellowship and morph into a surgeon.

Your powers are weak. Lynda Carter has you beat - spin around really fast and you can morph into a superhero.

 

[WernickeDO]

Your powers are weak. Lynda Carter has you beat - spin around really fast and you can morph into a superhero.

You mean superHEROINE. Sounds like you need more SHARP training.

 

[Shikima]

You mean superHEROINE. Sounds like you need more SHARP training.

HA! Touche...

 

[Froggy25]

If you want to be close to battlefield casaulties as a physican in today's deployment environment, go Army and get on an FST or SRT with ARSOF. They're about the only physicians doing first-line trauma care right now, from what I can see.

 

[deuist]

If you join the Air Force and then join the tactical critical care evacuation team (TCCET), you can get close to the fire if you do something really stupid. One of our TCCET docs got shot getting off the aircraft when he was told not to.

 

[deleted480308]

If you join the Air Force and then join the tactical critical care evacuation team (TCCET), you can get close to the fire if you do something really stupid. One of our TCCET docs got shot getting off the aircraft when he was told not to.

I'm always slightly curious about things like this. Were the other crew getting off the aircraft to get someone and he was going to help or was he going all crazy lone wolf rambo? It seems like often the same situations that are "man it was dumb of you to do that in terms of personal safety" often are quite similar to "so and so is awarded the (x) medal for actions without regard to their personal safety"

 

[Apollyon]

I'm always slightly curious about things like this. Were the other crew getting off the aircraft to get someone and he was going to help or was he going all crazy lone wolf rambo? It seems like often the same situations that are "man it was dumb of you to do that in terms of personal safety" often are quite similar to "so and so is awarded the (x) medal for actions without regard to their personal safety"

Well, it's like I say here in the real world: I learned in military school that there "is a fine line between balls and stupidity", or, "9 guys get a court-martial, and 1 guy gets a Meritorious Service Medal", for exactly the same thing.

 

[ArmyTiger]

Well, it's like I say here in the real world: I learned in military school that there "is a fine line between balls and stupidity", or, "9 guys get a court-martial, and 1 guy gets a Meritorious Service Medal", for exactly the same thing.

The rule of thumb is that heroes get people killed. Got that drilled into us in my early days in the Army.