Doctors are one of the most needed thing in the army especially specialized ones like surgeons. You are probably the most protected person. Basically nobody can mess with you. You can definitely get deployed to a field hospital but if you ever have to fight something has gone way wrong. But, the coolest military doctors I’ve met had prior combat experience or were at least prepared.

Pass the CGFNS exams and get a certificate. They will assess your knowledge in nursing and your english language proficiency. Once you have your CGFNS certification, you can take the NCLEX. Pass the NCLEX, and you are officially a nurse. CGFNS certification is required in two-thirds of states.

@@D2524-v8r i already had CGFNS and I am an NCLEX passer. I have been a nurse here in the US for more than 10years already.

How did that process go for you? Any tips?

how is it going so far! 😊

Me too

I am doing it and have enjoyed it thus far. I was prior enlisted though

When applying to med school, you can apply to USUHS, the Uniformed Services University's school of medicine. You'll join a particular branch who will act as a kind of sponsor during your medical training. The training will consist of all the scientific rigor you'd expect in a civilian program with an additional military bent on some subject matter. When you're done with med school, you'll train in a residency program that your branch needs you in or you might go straight into practice as a general practitioner (no residency). You will owe them four years of service whenever you hit the fleet. Alternatively, you could apply to the Health Professional Scholars Program (HPSP) via a branch of your choice (e.g. Navy or Airforce) once you have acceptance into at least one medical school. They will fund your tuition and fees and they will give you a stipend of about $2k/month, but you owe them service once you're done with med school training. "What about residency?" you might ask. You will apply to the military match, which takes place in January. You may petition to participate in the civilian match as well and try your luck at getting into a program of your choosing that way if the mil match didn't work out for you. The big difference is time. If you join the military residency, your time in service begins right away during residency training (e.g. your years toward qualifying retirement, which is usually 20 years). If you choose a civilian residency this clock does not start for you. So choose wisely. If you plan on retiring in the military, or aren't sure, I'd go for the GP or mil residency, because your "retirement clock" starts sooner/at a younger age for you. If you're just using the military so you don't have debt and have some spending money while you're in school (not the best financial move for most specialties due to opportunity costs) then do the civ residency and have the chance to rank your favorite program. *IMPORTANT NOTE:* Your "paypack years" don't begin until you are done with medical training and are practicing medicine as a doc assigned to a unit somewhere. If you do the military residency, are you done with training? No. So while your time in residency counts toward your years of qualified service for the purposes of retirement, your residency _does not count toward your "payback years,"_ which you owe for the scolarship and stipends. This difference between the "payback clock" and the "retirement clock" is true in all of the above scenarios and is something you need to consider if you're going to be happy in the long term. If you attend the military med school (USUHS) four years of med school does not count toward retirement even though you're serving with the military and have a rank. Instead, four years is added onto your total years of service once you hit qualifying retirement, and these extra four years is used to determine your level of retirement benefits. There are also programs that will pay you money while you're in a civilian residency program -- in exchange for years of service of course. You can even get in this program if you've taken the med school scholarship, the HPSP. The program will pay you money _in addition to_ your stipend from the civilian residency program, usually adding about $40k to $50k per year to your income, putting your income in the neighborhood of $100k. But you will owe a year for every year you use this program. So if you took both the scholarship and the residency assistance, you could be owing nearly a decade of service. If your plan was to retire from the service as a doc, I'd say take all this free money. If not, it may not be worth it because you won't have much leverage to take the lucrative financial opportunities that may become available to you as you gain experience in your specialty. Military salaries don't hold a candle to the private sector.

I wish you the best!

No, if you play your cards right you might get your way on your second or third duty station.

Yes

It all depends on your age. How old are you? I am a healthcare recruiter for the US Army. Give me a call at 5405521070

You can get a waiver if your specialty is needed. I know an ortho who went in at 61.