What is the best way to get an MD and become a doctor while in the Navy?

Question

I don't yet have a college degree. I am working on Corpsman school right now and want to eventually get my MD. All of the sites I have visited say that it is virtually impossible? Is this true?

Answer 1

Your best bet would be to take premed class's while you are in the navy.

After you have a couple of years credits, apply for the STA-21 program.

If your accepted into the STA-21 program, go to a University that offers NROTC. Join NROTC and then if you get accepted into medical school, try and get NROTC to pay for it.

It has happened where NROTC pays for your complete medical school while your being paid your salary as an Ensign.

The largest single issue, is getting accepted into medical school, the Navy cannot help you there, thats entirely based on your GPA
and MCAT test results.

Answer 2

I don't know about the Navy but I knew some enlisted guys in the Army who have gone on to get their MD's. Get separated from the Navy and go to NROTC. Then apply for an "educational delay (for graduate school)" if you get accepted to Medical School while you are an undergraduate. If you get into the "uniformed services university of health sciences" (www.usuhs.mil) you can get your MD and they will pay all your tuition and you will paid as an officer the whole time you are there!!! I knew some West Pointers that went this route. They owed the Army like 4000 years after graduation but they didn't pay a dime for an MD!! the only catch with all of this is that you are going to have to spend more time in the Navy. They aren't going to get you an MD then let you leave right away. Plus NROTC does not have to grant you an "educational delay" even though they have no reason not to if you are going to medical school. there are ways to do this and don't let anyone tell you there aren't.

Answer 3

Actually quite a few navy Corpsmen from WWII did go on to Medical school, and as with Korea but few after Vietnam but some did.

It is all part of the getting into medical game: competitive, then you face age issues.

But if you are an "A" science student or close: can score well on your SAT, the Med School test is after college, perhaps.

Then the issues is well, you have to live in the "right state", and such. Be very careful about taking college course while in the Navy. You need well A's. Your required science courses: organic chemistry is considered one of the important ones are very important.

It all boils down to where you get you BS degree, scores and luck.

But many other options open up: podiatry, vet school, PA school,
nursing is actually great and they have practitioner's, etc.

If in school now to be a Corpsman: please go study, then well hit the gym as you may end up we called it "FMF" and well "Doc" them marines are something else but they have told you that.

Getting a BS in the service and going for the "Uniformed health Sciences" program is likely impossible. Hey, move, establish residency in a small state. One of my classmates took about ten years to get in. But know you know it can be done, has been,
can be.

Answer 4

Yes it is true. What you have to do is to get out of the military and devote full time in first taking pre-med with emphasis on a B.S. degree in one of the science like chemistry, or biology, then you have to make it into med school, which is so competitive that only one in 10 make it, inspite of good grades and a good score on the Med. College Admissions Test [MCAT].After that you have 4 years of medical school, which has a fairly high drop out rate, because it is very very demanding, and not all can take the pressure, even if they got the brains.

Answer 5

Yes, you cannot get a MD with out a degree and than a MD at a university

Answer 6

If it is still active, BOOTSTRAP, it gives you a reprieve from the military to complete an extensive degree program!

Answer 7

yeah, give up