United States Navy Health Professions Scholarship Program HPSP

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United States Navy Health Professions
Scholarship Program (HPSP)

• We can help you get from here to there!
• HOSPITAL CORPSMAN SENIOR CHIEF
• JOSEPH BURDS

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SCHOLARSHIP INFORMATION
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What is the HPSP?

• Full Tuition Scholarship for Medical or Dental
  School Accredited AMA or AOA Medical(Public or
  Private School) ADA Dental.
• Covers required books, required fees and
  equipment and school health insurance(if
  required)
• Provides monthly stipend of 1319.00
• Provides you with 45 days of summer active duty
  service for clerkships or USMLE preparation (earn
  about 3000)
• During school year, no uniforms and no drills
• Scholarship worth HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF
  DOLLARS!

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What do we look for?

• American Citizen
• Current leadership roles, Leadership potential.
• Sincere personal statement, The Navy know you
  need money. Why do you want to serve?
• Strong Moral character
• No Medical concerns.
• Physically fit

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Eligibility Requirements

• U.S. Citizen
• Less than 40 at time of commissioning
• Good physical health
• Acceptance to an accredited Medical or Dental
  School in the United States or Puerto Rico. You
  can begin the HPSP application process upon
  receipt of MCAT or DAT results.
• Need not have acceptance letter to apply!
• Willing to relocate after graduation

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Benefits of Scholarship

• Debt free education
• Outstanding internship and residency training
  programs
• Exciting professional opportunities
• Opportunities to see the world

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What is my obligation?

• 4 year scholarship 4 years after internship.
• 3 year scholarship 3 years after internship.
• 2 year scholarship 2 years after internship.
• 1 year scholarship 2 years after internship.

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DENTISTS
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What happens after a scholarship recipient
graduates from Dental School?

• Go into practice at a state-of-the-art dental
  facility
• Advanced Education and General Dentistry (AEGD)
  or General Practice Residency (GPR)
• Postgraduate Education
• Two-year residencies in comprehensive dentistry,
  endodontics, oral medicine, and orofacial pain
• Three-year residencies in oral and maxillofacial
  pathology, periodontics, and prosthodontics
• One-year fellowship in maxillofacial prosthetics

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Assignment of Navy DentistsNumber of Navy
Dentists1114
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PHYSICIANS
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What happens after a scholarship recipient
graduates from Medical School? Three Pathways

• Navy Residency
• Civilian Residency
• Primary Care as a General Medical Officer

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4000 Navy Physicians

• 1000 Navy Physicians in training at any given
  time!
• 60 Navy residency programs with 895 residency
  openings
• 120 Fulltime Civilian Residency Positions

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Navy Residencies
Naval Medical Center San Diego

• 7 Major ACGME accredited teaching hospitals
• Fully credentialed faculty
• Excellent national reputations
• Excellent resident to faculty ratio

Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton, CA
Naval Medical Center Portsmouth
Naval Hospital Pensacola, FL
Naval Hospital Jacksonville, FL
National Naval Medical Center
Naval Hospital Bremerton, WA
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Navy Residencies

• Internal Medicine Neurosurgery
• General Surgery Pathology
• Neurology Ophthalmology
• Psychiatry OB/GYN
• Orthopedics Aerospace Medicine
• Urology Emergency Med
• ENT Family Medicine
• Dermatology Occupational
• Medicine Pediatrics
• Preventive Med Anesthesiology
• Radiology

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Navy Residency Training
Navy gt95 1st time Board Pass Rate Civilian
80 - 85 w/ gt 3 yr ACGME accreditation in
averaged civilian residency program
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Is Navy GME as good as civilian GME?

• Yes!!!
• All Navy GME sites with maximum institutional
  accreditation
• Over 85 of individual programs have maximum or
  near maximum program accreditation
• Excellent 1st time Board pass rate in all
  specialties
• FULL PAY AND BENEFITS!

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Navy Graduate Board Pass Rate
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Civilian Deferment for residency

• Must match for a residency
• Must be a categorical match in a specialty the
  Navy needs in order to complete the full
  residency
• No pay or benefits from the Navy while in
  residency
• Does not incur any additional payback time

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Can an HPSP student choose to do either Navy or
civilian training?

• All HPSP students apply to Navy Selection Board
• List preferences Navy residency or Civilian
  Residency
• Priority given to filling Navy internships YOU
  WILL NOT BE GIVEN A RESIDENCY YOU DO NOT WANT
  MUST COMPETE!
• Deferments are available for HPSP recipients to
  complete a civilian residency prior to active
  duty.
• If selected for full deferment wont come on
  active duty until training completed (wont have
  opportunity for GMO assignment).

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GENERAL MEDICAL OFFICER
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General Medical Officer (GMO)

• Primary care physician who usually works in an
  operational area such as
• Flight Surgeon
• Undersea Medical Officer
• Marines
• Construction Battalion
• Hospitals
• Clinics
• Overseas
• Ships
• TIME AS A GMO COUNTS TOWARD SCHOLARSHIP PAYBACK!

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Placement after Medical School2005 - 349 GRADS
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Are all HPSP graduates required to do a ship tour
after internship?

• No only about 6 of graduating class will serve
  on a ship

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Do we pull people out of medical school or
residency to go on active duty?

• NO! It is not beneficial to the Navy to take
  someone out of training. They are of no use to
  us in the fields that we need if they are not
  trained.

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Why Navy?

• State of the art facilities
• Outstanding teamwork
• Fantastic Duty Stations
• Great Work Hours
• Outstanding Residency Programs!
• Shorter payback if you dont pursue a residency
• You will KNOW what residency you will go to
  because you will compete for it!
• Your payback will be working in your specialty!

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Benefits

• Full scholarship
• Competitive Pay
• PAID Fellowship and other specialty opportunities
• Full malpractice coverage
• No office concerns (manpower, equipment, real
  estate, billing etc.)
• No group buy-in
• Funded Continuing Medical Education (CME)
• Executive Medicine opportunities
• 30 days paid vacation
• Unlimited, sick days with full pay and
  allowances
• 20 year retirement program
• AND .)

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• Benefits Cont.
• Duty Stations up and down both coasts and
  fantastic overseas locations!
• Travel on space available military flights
• Officers Club, golf courses, fitness centers,
  movies, etc., free or at reduced rates
• VA Guaranteed Home Loan no down payment
  required when buying a home!
• Thrift Savings Plan tax deferred growth of
  retirement investment up to 15,000 per year
  (similar to 401K)
• Veteran Status!
• Montgomery GI Bill over 36,000 in education
  money after you get out of the Navy

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COMPETETIVE PROFILE

• Undergraduate GPA 3.00 and ABOVE
• Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) scores gt23
  Dental Admission Test (DAT) scores gt15
• Leadership.

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Can I work for you??
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Questions??
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What are you going to do?

• Medicine
• Dentistry
• Nursing
• Healthcare Administration
• Physical Therapy
• Pharmacy
• Lab officer
• Undecided

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Scholarship Contact Active Duty HM1 Chuckie
Triana [phone] [phone] Trianae_at_cnrc.na
vy.mil
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ERAS 2006 (Electronic Residency Application
Service)

• Activity
• Mid June ERAS 2007 Applicant Manuals will be
  available for PDF download by chapters or in
  its entirety on our Web site.
• Late June Schools may begin to generate and
  distribute MyERAS tokens to applicants.
• July 1st MyERAS Web site opens to applicants to
  begin working on their applications.
• July 15th Osteopathic applicants may begin
  selecting and applying to Osteopathic
  Internship programs ONLY.
• Sep 1st Applicants may begin applying to ACGME
  accredited programs
• Sep 1st ACGME accredited programs may begin
  contacting the ERAS PostOffice to download
  application files.
• Nov 1st MSPEs' are released.
• Dec Military Match
• Jan Urology Match
• Feb Osteopathic Match
• Mar NRMP Match results will be available.
• May ERAS PostOffice will close to prepare for
  the 2008 season.

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What is the make up of the class?

• Freshman
• Sophomore
• Junior
• Senior
• ROTC

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Match Process

• Receive guidance during 3rd yr
• Apply to both Navy and civilian match
• Navy match results out in December
• If selected for Navy, withdraw from civilian
  match
• If approved for deferment then continue with
  civilian match

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Navy Internships (GME-1)

• Navy internships
• Internal Medicine
• Pediatrics
• OB/GYN
• Family Medicine
• Surgery
• ENT
• Ortho
• Psychiatry
• Transitional

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Training Opportunities in Unusual Medical Topics

• Tropical Medicine Course
• Cold Weather Medicine Course
• Combat Casualty Care Course
• Naval War College - College of Distance Learning
• Basic Medical Department Officers Course
• Clinic Management Course
• Hyperbaric Medicine Team Training Course
• Global Medicine Course
• Plans, Operations, and Medical Intelligence
  Course
• Marine Corps Mountain Wilderness Training
• Others

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Montgomery GI Bill

• Eligibility
• -For applicants - 100 per month X one year.
• -Non-refundable!
• -must decline in writing
• -NOT Eligible if ROTC/Service Academy grad
• -Unless previously enlisted and paid into the
  program
• -Must have an Honorable Discharge
• -Eligibility expires 10 years after discharge
• -Full time students receive 1004/month up for up
  to 36 months
• -college fund - AKA "The Kicker"
• -individual pays an additional 50.00 per month
  (600) AFTER their second year of active duty to
  gain an additional 166.00 per month for a
  total of 1170/month and 42,120 total benefit!

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GMO Scope of Practice

• Mixed practice of outpatient emergency room
  care of active duty, dependents, retirees, and
  all Department of Defense beneficiaries

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Navy Residency Training
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CIVILIAN RESIDENCY TRAINING
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Training During School

• One training session per year
• First year is Officer Indoctrination School (OIS)
  or Research Clerkship
• OIS May be done before Medical School MS-1
• After MS-2
• School orders (study for USMLE 1)
• MS-3 MS-4
• Teaching Hospital
• Recommendations
• Choose hospital/specialty in which you have most
  interest
• Arrange as early as possible