MC Recruiting Update and Funded TAD!
Last week was a big week capped off with a stunning upset of West Point by the USNA Football team. While not quite as thrilling as the Army-Navy Game, it was also a big week for BUMED who hosted Navy Recruiting Command (NRC) senior leadership on Friday. Our Deputy Surgeon General RADM Freedman and RADM Waters, Commander, NRC, led a three-hour discussion at BUMED HQ on talent management. The discussion included recruiting lines of effort within both organizations, partnerships to recruit both students through HPSP and physicians through direct accessions, and how to eliminate inefficiencies and increase speed to decision for physician onboarding. One of the key points introduced by RADM Waters is that only physicians can recruit physicians. While NRC can create engagement opportunities and process the required paperwork, physicians interested in naval service want to speak to Navy doctors.
Attached is a spreadsheet listing medical recruiting activities for which Navy doctors are needed (highlighted in yellow). These recruiting events are centrally funded by BUMED. You only need your command’s permission to participate in the TAD; a BUMED line of accounting will be provided. While Navy Medicine is experiencing challenges, if you feel like the benefits you’ve received through naval service outweigh these challenges, please volunteer to partner with a Navy recruiter at one of these engagements by e-mailing your Corps Chief’s Office. Note, several are relatively short-fused. The CCO must provide names a week from today so the suspense date for volunteers is midnight Sunday, 22 December 2024. Recruiting the best and brightest to the Navy is an All-Hands effort. Many Navy Medicine challenges are dependent on DHA policies but correcting our end strength problem is within our control.
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