Residency programs in military hospitals

Did you enlist? What will your job be in the Army Reserves? How long ago did you complete medical school? What kind of residency are you planning to apply to? As I understand it, it is nearly impossible to be a resident while you are a drilling reservist.

Drill weekends cause a real problem with your residency duty hour requirements. The ACGME prohibits any employment outside of your residency for first-year residents, and mandates the number of hours and days off that you must have as a resident, and drill weekends would interfere with that.

If you were deployed or activated in any way , that would interfere with your ability to complete your training. The ACGME will only allow you to be absent from residency for a certain number of total weeks during your entire residency, which means any military activation could lead to finishing residency late. It also can cause serious problems for your co-residents, who have to do your work while you are gone, so I have a hard time imagining a residency program hiring a resident who is an active reservist.

For these reasons, the Army says on their website about MAVNI that, as a doctor, you need to be residency complete or in your final year of residency training. The only thing I can think of is that you can, under certain circumstances, be released from your military contract in order to pursue advanced training in the military, such as a military medical residency.

I would call your recruiter and a military medical recruiter to see what options, if any, you have. I have 11 years of naval enlisted service and I am headed to medical school next year. The Navy has very few slots available for those specialties, would it be worth it doing the civilian residency in those specialties? Thanks for your message, and congrats on your acceptance to medical school! Have you already signed an HPSP contract?

As you said, neurosurgery and orthopedic surgery have very few spots in the Navy. The Navy sends very few people directly through residency — most Navy HPSP folks have to do a PGY-1 intern year when they finish medical school, then spend a few years as a GMO before they are allowed to complete their residency.

It is extremely rare for the Navy to let anyone do a civilian residency. They match you to a specialty first, based on the needs of the service. Then they fill the military residencies in that specialty. So they will only let someone do a civilian residency in, say, neurosurgery, if they decide that they need to train more neurosurgeons that year than they have military neurosurgery residency spots.

Does that make sense? For more information on this, take a look at these other posts. This one explains more about the civilian deferral process, but it is written from an Air Force perspective, and the Air Force sends a LOT more people out to train in civilian programs than the Navy does.

If you are offered a civilian spot in the Navy in one of those specialties, I would think about how long you plan to stay in after residency. With 11 years of prior service, if you get 4 years of HPSP funding, you will owe 4 years of active duty service.

That gets you to 15 years. If you do an active duty residency in orthopedic surgery 5 years , then at the end of your payback time, you will be at 20 and you can walk away if you want to with full retirement benefits. On the other hand, if you do a 7-year civilian neurosurgery residency, that delays your year retirement clock. If I do end up training civilian what am I paying for my own? If you go to a civilian residency, you must pay to move yourself and your belongings from medical school to your residency.

If you train in a military residency, the government will pay your moving expenses for the move from medical school to your military residency location. I am currently a navy HPSP recipient on a 2 year scholarship, for which I owe 3 years of active duty. I plan on completing a residency in General surgery, which by doing by the navy will increase my active duty obligation to 5 years. I am currently in my third year of medical school. In your experience, would it better to try getting a civilian deferral to avoid the extra 2 year obligation or would the benefits of active duty pay be more important?

Thanks for your question! It sounds like you want to leave the military when you are done with your initial commitment, in which case you may benefit from getting experience with the civilian world in a civilian residency if you can get it learning about billing, etc.

Service commitments aside, though, I will say that it is very unlikely that the Navy will grant a civilian deferral for general surgery unless things have changed significantly. Hello, I am a current resident on a deferment. I did two years of residency, then 2 more years of research at a different institution on a govt grant.

I am now headed back to residency to finish residency. However, I wish to finish my last 3 years at a different institution for family reasons. If i get a position at a different institution, does this have to be approved by jsgme?

I am going to be finishing at the same time regardless of where I finish my training. It is my understanding that Physician Education Branch needs to be notified of and approve any such changes.

JSGME determines who gets which residencies, Physician Education Branch owns you while you are actually in training and manages your contracts.

I am not an average Navy student and do not have any connections to the military. I am about to graduate from a four year university and will have a bachelors in science. I initially looked into joining the navy for PT school and have since switched into looking at medical schools also the Navy route.

I am starting from scratch and would like to know if a civilian or military residency is a better fit. My understanding is that I apply to medical school first and then military programs, then when accepted the military would pay for it. To help describe my situation more: 1. I want to practice a highly paid specialty 4. What makes you say that you want to work in a highly paid specialty? And why are you interested in the Navy? If you want to practice a highly competitive subspecialty in a civilian hospital, HPSP may not be the right fit for you.

I do understand it is difficult either or but any ideas which residency civilian or military would make it little easier or open more opportunities if I want to make this transition? Sorry for the late response! While this number varies by specialty, even less competitive programs need to develop minimum initial filtering requirements in order to process such a huge number of applications.

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