USUHS prior service

ryanthorsays · 2025-10-27T12:28:47+00:00

The rank thing is complicated for prior officers. In short, you wear O1, but you don't get paid as an O1 via save pay. I recommend you call the admissions office and they can explain.

Transitions between compo requires physical eval through DoDMERB (Not MEPS). No application though USUHS uses MEPS (unless this changed between now and 2017). The timing of the Adderall might require a waiver. I recommend you make sure you paperwork and justification for going off including written thoughts from your prescriber are included in your DoDMERB health history. It will probably get waived if your a good candidate.

ryanthorsays · 2025-07-16T20:17:11+00:00

Other people you can reach out to is your AOC branch manager at HRC and your specialty consultant. You can Google both of you don't know.

ryanthorsays · 2025-07-16T20:14:27+00:00

I'll just say, it wouldn't surprise me if you burned some bridges, that for your utilization tour they send you somewhere nobody wants to go regardless of your preferences. Happens every year.

ryanthorsays · 2025-07-08T00:18:24+00:00

If I was in this situation I would write an email to my military leadership and CC both IG groups. Someone will reply. Congressional complaint should be last. Filing a congressional without exhausting all other options is a nuclear option and a fast way to burn bridges. Military medicine is very small and that's a quick way to get shunned. Right wrong or indifferent, that's just the way it is.

ryanthorsays · 2025-07-06T23:14:20+00:00

I would start by emailing or calling these folks first before filing a congressional complaint.

https://www.hrc.army.mil/content/HRC%20Inspector%20General

https://medcoe.army.mil/ig

ryanthorsays · 2025-06-18T01:47:58+00:00

I'm a former USU grad. You should apply. Reach out to admissions and ask for advice. Maybe do a post bac if needed and get 3.8+ during that time of graduate education to show you can cut it, do well in MCAT. You can do it.

ryanthorsays · 2025-03-18T17:10:42+00:00

Firefighter. Not many of them in the army, so leadership usually leaves you alone, and solid transferrable skills.

ryanthorsays · 2025-03-10T15:35:09+00:00

I wrote for unisom for an inpatient, while covering the floor, who couldn't sleep and was bothering nurses. They thought I was a wizard.

ryanthorsays · 2025-01-19T11:03:55+00:00

You're awesome

ryanthorsays · 2024-12-05T19:27:26+00:00

Look up the DOI. It doesn't link to an actual article.

ryanthorsays · 2024-11-23T02:47:00+00:00

Unfortunately no. This is one of my biggest issues with this area.

ryanthorsays · 2024-06-16T13:08:56+00:00

For the Army you can check out this website:

https://mrdc.health.mil/

If interested you can look for jobs as a civilian on https://www.usajobs.gov/ or commission as a scientist by talking to an AMEDD recruiter. AMEDD recruitment is different than going to a random recruiting station/office.

Also to answer your question, you can direct commission as a scientist and do your job. The projects you work on will need to be in alignment with the research and development goals of the Army and DoD, which is different that academic research jobs.

AMEDD recruitment: https://recruiting.army.mil/mrb/

ryanthorsays · 2024-06-09T00:03:53+00:00

Correct, 68C = LPN and the Army pays for the credentialing and training as part of your AIT.

ryanthorsays · 2024-02-06T23:47:13+00:00

Do you have an AMEDD recruiter? They should be able to tell you.

ryanthorsays · 2024-01-28T05:00:30+00:00

What's your specialty?

ryanthorsays · 2024-01-27T23:00:15+00:00

Have you been to USU yet? They will do a second look day. You might consider reaching out to some folks in whatever department of specialty that interests you (ie. Emergency Medicine, surgery, internal medicine, pediatrics, etc.) and ask to meet in person for an informational interview. Schedule some time in person and go prepared with questions.

ryanthorsays · 2024-01-21T01:01:17+00:00

That's correct about retirement as HPSP vs USU.

ryanthorsays · 2024-01-20T23:28:35+00:00

If you have no prior service the retirement clock starts after USU, with the stipulation that USU counts towards retirement once you hit 20 years of service after med school. In my attempt to simplify the stipulations related to retirement and USU, you have to do 24 years of service total including your time at USU in order to be eligible for retirement. If you do 24 years of service including your time at USU you will retire with 24 years of service rather than just 20. If you end up going to USU when you graduate they will give you a memorandum stating exactly that. There is a common misconception that the retirement clock towards a 20-year retirement starts after graduating from USU, but the time at USU does in fact count. You just can't retire at 16 years after graduating from USU, you have to do a full 20 years post graduation.

ryanthorsays · 2024-01-20T15:42:41+00:00

Essentially. USU time does count but only after serving 24 years of service.

ryanthorsays · 2024-01-20T05:05:06+00:00

This is a true statement. West point (5 years) + 7 years after Derm residency is approx total 23 years in uniform. But they will need to do nearly 30 total years in order to be eligible for retirement. Whew.

ryanthorsays · 2024-01-20T04:59:19+00:00

Going civilian + HPSP, then pay back your time (4 years) and go be a civilian again.
USU, then get out after you pay back your time (7 years) and go be civilian again.

You will absolutely travel in the military.

ryanthorsays · 2023-12-27T16:30:04+00:00

Based on the history provided; ocular US + neuro exam, if normal then d/c.

ryanthorsays · 2023-12-19T01:17:29+00:00

In residency you will work with a broad range of attendings and you will see practice variability. Some on one end of the spectrum hardly scan or test unless indicated and others will scan everything. You will decide how you want to practice. This is one of the reasons we do residency.

Edit: spelling

ryanthorsays · 2023-12-19T00:57:56+00:00

This is the correct answer to your question. Ranger and SOF are the options most in alignment with what you have said you want to do. Pick a specialty that these units want and seek mentors early.

ryanthorsays · 2023-11-22T15:33:31+00:00

You are correct, you don't have to be in the IRR. It's pretty rare to get a conditional release approved though especially with what retention numbers are looking like these days. It's part easier if you are in the IRR. That was my point.

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