Posted on Dec 15, 2020
What has been your experience with the HPSP? Are there any programs to also assist me with fulfilling the prerequisites?
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I would like to hear anyone’s experience with HPSP or similar programs. I am almost done with my bachelors and I will have to go to a post baccalaureate to complete prerequisites my school does not offer so I can get into medical school. I am trying to find out any options out there that can assist me because it’s definitely something that I can’t leave for last minute to figure out. Any information would be appreciated.
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The Army has a post bachelor program just for that. It's called EMDP2. The army pays you to go to school on active duty at one of the premier Schools of Medicine in the world while on active duty. You're required to apply to USUHS at the end of it and if you don't get accepted you're free to apply to any other medical school through HPSP. USUHS is a better choice because you commission immediately upon entering the school, you're on active duty the whole time and you graduate as a Captain. You'll be picking up Major around the time you finish your residency. https://www.usuhs.edu/emdp2
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Yea it would be great if I get accepted especially with the costs of pursuing medical school being so expensive. I am currently on a MOB till sept, my reserve contract is up in July, and I probably won’t finish my bachelors till early 2022. What do you think my options are during this time period? I don’t wanna reenlist for another 6 years in the reserves where it would prevent me from transferring over to active if I do get into this program.
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I was also considering going 68 series in order to get actual experience in the mean time.
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SPC (Join to see) don't bother with that this far into your career and degree. CMF68 only accepts non promotable E4 for most MOS's. You can get a grade waiver for 68W but there's no guarantee you'll be doing anything actually medical at your first assignment. The other 68 series have class lengths of a year or so. If you were to get one of those you would have to wait three more years from now before you could apply to any medical program
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SPC (Join to see) the EDMP2 is an active duty program and you'd have to be active duty to do it. But you can apply to USUHS if you're in the Reserves. USUHS is not an Army school it's an Interservice school. Each service sponsors its own students and then they return to the service to pay back their time. USAR sponsors students as well.
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what is your major and which prereqs are you missing? typically if you get a chemistry, physics or biology degree from any accredited university you will meet all the prereqs for med school. My youngest brother got his BS in Chemistry from the University of North Alabama and met all the requirements for med school.
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I am actually a psychology major. I have only taken chemistry but either way the post bacc would help me better prepare for the MCAT and medical school as a whole.
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SPC (Join to see) - I just find it interesting that your school does not offer the basic courses required for med school. the list typically isn't very long, chemistry, organic chemistry, bio, physics, and a touch of calculus. I will say, based on my brother's experience, that if you don't have a strong science background, med school is going to be a very tough challenge. best of luck
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