Can anyone provide advice for a recent college graduate with a micro-biology degree looking to join the military?
They also explicitly use microbiology, although they're far smaller than USPHS, though you should nevertheless look into them, micriobio is explicitly mentioned here, I'd seen....
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You should most def submit for Jr and or SR COSTEP with usphs, especially if you want grad school, certainly....
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This is fairly representative of what you could try for if you wanted infectious disease in medicine, whether allopathic (MD) or osteopathic (DO), look at both routes....
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Definitely submit for this as a civil servant, you don't, I'm fairly certain, need to be active duty to submit for it, I've looked at their programs a long time, and I'm fairly certain, however, getting in would be hard, honest, though you def should still try, I should think....
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