Medical Service

[jooliooo]

Hi all, im currently being recruited to USNA and USMA and am exploring my options after graduation. I was wondering if anyone could give me some insight about what medical service is like as a career assignment. Im interested in becoming a PT and was wondering 1.) do i have the choice to go to pt school? 2.) do you have to serve more time if you go into DPT school?

 

[DrMom]

There is no direct pathway to serving as a PT. You can do your initial service in any branch and then apply to DPT school. The Army has its own program. However, it is a long shot...so don't go into this wanting to be a PT...go into this wanting to be an Army officer of Naval officer. Hope that helps.

 

[MullenLE]

Dr Mom is 1,000,000 % correct as always. No one will graduate either of those academies as a PT. They graduate as Army and Naval officers. A few selected folks will go directly to medical school to be a physician. Many, will become physicians after their Academy obligated service

 

[DrMom]

If what you really want to do is become a PT in the military...then look at the Health Professions Scholarship Program (HPSP) to see what is required for the Army and Navy to enter as a PT and how they support the education through scholarships and salary. Best wishes. If you really want to be a PT, then don't go to a service academy, you will spend a lot of time doing other things that are not what you really want to do. However, if you want to go to a service academy and then become a PT later in life, you can do that too...but you will spend years doing other things (great and interesting things--but not working on a degree toward becoming a PT.) Hope that helps.

Also, thank you Mr. Mullen for the strong second. As always, your input is greatly appreciate by the applicants and by me.

 

[jooliooo]

Ok perfect. I don’t want to sound

If what you really want to do is become a PT in the military...then look at the Health Professions Scholarship Program (HPSP) to see what is required for the Army and Navy to enter as a PT and how they support the education through scholarships and salary. Best wishes. If you really want to be a PT, then don't go to a service academy, you will spend a lot of time doing other things that are not what you really want to do. However, if you want to go to a service academy and then become a PT later in life, you can do that too...but you will spend years doing other things (great and interesting things--but not working on a degree toward becoming a PT.) Hope that helps.

Also, thank you Mr. Mullen for the strong second. As always, your input is greatly appreciate by the applicants and by me.

Great thank you, this helped a lot because it was too my knowledge that there were such opportunities in the army and not in the navy which made the decision very hard, but im sure of navy now.