Coast Guard Academy and Med School

I am looking into this as an option. My son is Soph in HS and is interested in becoming a doctor and also in a service academy or ROTC. My wife has friends with CGA background and successful careers and wanted to me to explore the academy for our son while he still has time to decide. Does CGA place many students in Med school? Is there undergad Pre Med? Does Coast Guard have HPSP like Army, Navy, AF?
Glad I found this forum. My 16 years old wants to be Dr. and 14 year old a pilot. I have a lot of research to do!

There is no path from CGA to medical school other than doing your time as a Coast Guard officer and then getting out and going to Med school.

To the best of my knowledge, Coast Guard does not have a Medical Corps. They use DOD providers and plans, and detailed USPHS docs.
https://www.gocoastguard.com/active-duty-careers/officer-opportunities/programs/physician

I am sure our regular CG posters will pop up, but I’m pretty sure, given the size of a USCGA graduating class, they all head to the usual CG communities, not med school.

There are dozens of threads here on SAF on med school out of USMA/USNA/USAFA, as well as ROTC. Your DS has plenty to research. In general, he should be prepared to go into the usual warfare branches or communities out of those commissioning sources, as that is what they are designed for. DOD gets the majority of its MDs through civilian schools and direct commission. There is indeed a path from the DOD SAs, and those folks are highly respected, but it’s a narrow one. Only a handful skimmed from the top of the class each year.

I mentioned USPHS above. It’s one of the 7 uniformed services, but not an armed service, with a commissioned officer corps. They have some great HS and college programs. I have met many and respect them greatly!

https://www.usphs.gov/student/

Unless things have changed dramatically, the CG DOES NOT have it's own medical officers. They use other DoD facilities, and USPHS docs, along with a LOT of contract physicians. Both @Capt MJ, and @kp2001 are correct, or at least were up to a few years ago. If you research the USCGA website and Officer Careers, there is no mention of Physician anywhere. All the Docs, Dentists, and hospitals they use are either DOD or Civilian with USPHS Physicians. I know the Army offers medical school after graduation into the Medical Corps, and I would thing the other two (USNA and USAFA) both do the same.

I appreciate the info guys. Looks like he may be narrowing the list a little.

The closest thing the Coast Guard Officers in the Physician's Assistant program, but those officers do at least one or two tours before being considered as PA's.