2 thoughts on “Detailed O5 Medical Corps Promotion Board Stats”
CAPT Jason Gordon, MC, USN said:
August 20, 2023 at 23:42
Asking below to help with advising junior officers:
1. Is there any explanation/definition as to what the flight surgeon (FS), undersea medical officer (UMO) and general medical officer (GMO) numbers represent for a commander board given FS and UMO are not subspecialties but rather additional qualifications which makes a non-boarded FS/UMO a GMO? It seems several of the same selects/non-selects could be counted multiple times.
2. Do the RAM #’s signify the graduates of the residency in aerospace medicine (ie, aerospace medicine specialists/AMS) at the time the board convened and not the actual RAM residents who were board eligible? In other words, the residents in RAM would be, at a minimum, flight surgeons and possibly boarded in an additional specialty such as family medicine and could be prior UMOs and therefore counted 2 or possibly 3 times in this matrix depending on the select/non-select status. It seems the matrix does not account for that.
Thanks for any feedback!
I’m not the guy who compiles the info, but here is my understanding of it. Everyone is only counted once. There is no double counting. Where you are counted depends on what billet you are in. Let’s say you are an ER doc and Flight Surgeon. If you are in a billet coded Flight Surgery, you’d show up in the Flight Surgery data. If you were in an ER billet, you’d show up there. That’s the short of it. You are counted in the community whose billet you are occupying at the time. Hope that helps.
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August 20, 2023 at 23:42
Asking below to help with advising junior officers:
1. Is there any explanation/definition as to what the flight surgeon (FS), undersea medical officer (UMO) and general medical officer (GMO) numbers represent for a commander board given FS and UMO are not subspecialties but rather additional qualifications which makes a non-boarded FS/UMO a GMO? It seems several of the same selects/non-selects could be counted multiple times.
2. Do the RAM #’s signify the graduates of the residency in aerospace medicine (ie, aerospace medicine specialists/AMS) at the time the board convened and not the actual RAM residents who were board eligible? In other words, the residents in RAM would be, at a minimum, flight surgeons and possibly boarded in an additional specialty such as family medicine and could be prior UMOs and therefore counted 2 or possibly 3 times in this matrix depending on the select/non-select status. It seems the matrix does not account for that.
Thanks for any feedback!
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August 21, 2023 at 09:22
I’m not the guy who compiles the info, but here is my understanding of it. Everyone is only counted once. There is no double counting. Where you are counted depends on what billet you are in. Let’s say you are an ER doc and Flight Surgeon. If you are in a billet coded Flight Surgery, you’d show up in the Flight Surgery data. If you were in an ER billet, you’d show up there. That’s the short of it. You are counted in the community whose billet you are occupying at the time. Hope that helps.
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