Navy
Practicing medicine in the Navy means providing the highest quality healthcare to beneficiaries worldwide. You will deploy alongside Sailors and U.S. Marines to provide critical care on land, on the sea and in the air. Back home, you’ll provide care to service members and their families, retirees and military veterans.
Whether you choose a full-time, active-duty commitment, or serve as a Navy Reservist and maintain your own practice, you’ll enter as a commissioned officer. As an Officer, you’ll get the chance to lead others earlier than you can expect in the civilian world and do so in a diverse range of global work environments.
Navy Medical Corps Officer – Physician
Hear from real Navy doctors about their experiences in the Military.
Hear from real Navy doctors about their experiences in the Military.
In the final step would be transecting the appendix with the harmonic scalpel. I'm a navy radiologist internal medicine physician this year Orthopedic surgery resident I'm an anesthesiologist An emergency room doctor we have very versatile, and we have a diverse skill sets whether you're on Shore you're at sea or you're in an austere environment. First with anything that I can do as a general surgeon ashore in the hospital I can do a float in this operating on an aircraft carrier. Being able to travel and practice medicine I thought was a great combination. My first duty station will be Naples Italy we were deploying to go help the citizens of Puerto Rico ended up being a hugely rewarding experience. The Navy sent me to dive school in Panama City Florida learn dive medicine while also diving. I went to a civilian medical school on a military scholarship. I decided to sign up for the Navy to do the Health Professions scholarship program. I got full pay and benefits in addition to having my medical school paid for I was commissioned as an officer. You get so many great leadership opportunities able to have two awesome careers and one.
Day In The Life
Dermatologist, Navy
Josephine explains to residents attending the morning report the benefits of practicing medicine in the Military versus the civilian sector.
NGUYEN: I know you guys are still in the learning phases, but even, like, you would think, like, even beyond — after residency and taking your patients, like, you all — there’s always a transition phase of your career, where you’re like, “OK, I’m good seeing patients now, I want to do something else like run hospitals, or do international aid.” And that’s what’s awesome about medicine, is that the civilian side, people pretty much have to stay in that pathway, or, I mean, or then they can transition, but then to transition to the executive level, it takes a big — a big transition, while for the Military, like, you can just jump from one to another, and then just still go back and take care of patients. So it’s been — I mean, it’s just — just to encourage you that your choice to go Military was great.
