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Ft. Belvoir Director for Education, Training, and Research – O5/O6

Posted on September 19, 2018

This is a Board of Directors level position at Fort Belvoir Community Hospital in the National Capital Region. They are seeking an O-5/O-6 to serve as their Director for Education, Training, and Research. Requested report date is May 2019, and candidates should be in the window for PCS orders.

Here is a document with further details:

FBCH DETR

Despite what it says in the document above, all applications have to go through the Medical Corps Chief’s Office at BUMED. Submit applications there via your Specialty Leader NLT 5 October 2018.

This entry was posted in Alternative Billets, Education, Leadership, Uncategorized and tagged alternative billets, education, leadership.

FY19 Enlisted to Medical Degree Prep Program

Posted on September 17, 2018 Updated on September 15, 2018

Here’s the NAVADMIN for this program. Make sure you share it with any qualified enlisted personnel you know:

UNCLASSIFIED

ROUTINE

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FM CNO WASHINGTON DC

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INFO CNO WASHINGTON DC

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NAVADMIN 229/18

PASS TO OFFICE CODES:
FM CNO WASHINGTON DC//N1//
INFO CNO WASHINGTON DC//N1//

MSGID/GENADMIN/CNO WASHINGTON DC/N1/SEP//

SUBJ/ FISCAL YEAR 2019 ENLISTED TO MEDICAL DEGREE PREPARATORY PROGRAM 
ANNOUNCEMENT //

REF/A/DOC/BUMED/7MAY15//

AMPN/ REF A IS BUMEDINST 1500.31, UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH 
SCIENCES ENLISTED TO MEDICAL DEGREE PREPARATORY PROGRAM.//

RMKS/1.  This NAVADMIN solicits applications and provides guidance for the 
Fiscal Year 2019 (FY-19) Enlisted to Medical Degree Preparatory Program 
(EMDP2).

2.  The EMDP2 is a two-year undergraduate education program open to enlisted 
personnel of all ratings who meet eligibility requirements according to 
reference (a).  The EMDP2 is a partnership between the Uniformed Services 
University of the Health Sciences (USUHS) and the Military Services to 
provide an opportunity for highly-motivated, academically promising enlisted 
service members.  The EMDP2 consists of intensive coursework preparation and 
mentoring to prepare students for application to medical school.  Upon 
completion of the program, successful students will be competitive for 
acceptance to U.S. medical schools.

3.  Selectees are assigned to the USUHS in Bethesda, MD for a two- year 
period.  Individuals selected for the EMDP2 program will remain on active 
duty while completing course work and receive pay, allowances, benefits, and 
privileges of their current pay grade.
Selectees will receive Permanent Change of Station orders to USUHS for the 
entire length of the course.  All school expenses (i.e., books, tuitions, 
labs, etc.) will be paid by USUHS for the entire length of the course.

4.  Deadline for submission of applications for FY-19 enrollment is
1 November 2018.  Application packages must be postmarked on or before the 
deadline date.  No additional documents or packages will be accepted after 
this date.  The selection board will convene in December 2018.  All 
application requirements are specified in reference (a) which can be found at 
https://www.usuhs.edu/emdp2, http://www.med.navy.mil/ or 
http://www.public.navy.mil.

5.  The application is a reflection of the applicant, strict adherence to the 
package submission requirements will be a primary factor for selection.  
Applicants must review their package in its entirety before submitting.  A 
minimum score of good on the latest physical fitness assessment, and a 
minimum score of 1200 with 600 in each category is required for qualifying 
Scholastic Assessment Test
(SAT) or American College Test (ACT) scores.

6.  This NAVADMIN does not modify any previous guidance contained in 
reference (a) regarding selective reenlistment bonus.

7.  Applicants assigned to a nuclear training command or who hold a nuclear 
Navy enlisted classification (335x, 336x, 338x, or 339x) and are applying for 
the FY-19 EMDP2 selection board must obtain conditional release from nuclear 
field duty prior to submitting an application for consideration for the FY-19 
board according to NAVADMIN 070/13.  To obtain a conditional release, 
applicants must submit an Enlisted Personnel Action Request (NAVPERS 1306/7) 
to the Nuclear Propulsion Program Manager (OPNAV N133) via the detailer at 
Enlisted Nuclear/Submarine Assignment (PERS-403).  The
FY-19 EMDP2 selection board will only consider nuclear enlisted candidates 
who have a conditional release included in their EMDP2 application.

8.  Applications should be mailed to:
    Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED-MC00C5)
    Office of the Hospital Corps
    7700 Arlington Blvd, Suite 5134
    Falls Church, VA 22042-5134

9.  Point of contact is HMCS Joseph Rawson, Office of the Hospital Corps, 
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, at (703) 681-4334 or via e-mail at 
joseph.d.rawson.mil(at)mail.mil.

10.  Released by Vice Admiral R. P. Burke, N1.//

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This entry was posted in Education, USUHS and tagged education, USUHS.

Mount Sinai’s Icahn School of Medicine Establishes Institutional Partnership With U.S. Navy, Streamlining Pathway for Servicemembers

Posted on September 16, 2018 Updated on September 14, 2018

New York, NY (July 30, 2018)

The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS) has established a streamlined pathway for active duty service members in the United States Navy and Marine Corps to apply to medical school prior to completing their service commitment.

The program allows provisional acceptance unencumbered by the traditional science requirements and MCAT. To be considered for admission, applicants must be on active duty with the Department of the Navy, which includes the Marines, and hold a bachelor’s degree recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. Candidates admitted into the ISMMS/Department of Navy program are offered provisional acceptance to ISMMS and then may defer their acceptance to continue their military service.

“Military veterans bring maturity, intellect, discipline, resourcefulness, and problem-solving skills that we value tremendously at the Icahn School of Medicine, where a variety of voices is critical to medical education and to the health of our patients,” says David Muller, MD, Dean for Medical Education and Marietta and Charles C. Morchand Chair in Medical Education.

According to Dr. Muller, the Navy pathway provides a mechanism for recruiting servicemen and women while integrating a layer of flexibility to ease the transition from their undergraduate careers. The partnership is a product of the Icahn School of Medicine’s popular FlexMed program, which allows college sophomores to apply for early assurance of acceptance.

1^st Lt Chris Bellaire will be the first student to matriculate at the Icahn School of Medicine through the Navy pathway. As an officer transitioning from active duty in the Marine Corps, Lieutenant Bellaire says he feels that medicine is a natural progression of a career spent in service to others. While stationed in Hawaii, Lieutenant Bellaire explored his interest in medicine by volunteering at a local hospital. Later, in 2017, while deployed in Southeast Asia, he saw first-hand the health care consequences of poverty, disease, and conflict. “My commitment to medicine and global health really took off after that experience,” he says. The Icahn School of Medicine’s emphasis on cultivating young doctors with different backgrounds and different voices appealed to him. “When I first read about the Institutional Partnership program, I thought, wow, Mount Sinai has a very inclusive idea of what it means to be a med school student. And I really gravitated to that.”

More information about the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, celebrating its 50^th anniversary this year, is available online.

This entry was posted in Education, Uncategorized and tagged education.

USU Assistant Dean for Clinical Sciences – CDR(sel) or Above

Posted on September 2, 2018 Updated on August 30, 2018

The details of the position are here:

USUHS Assistant Dean for Clinical Sciences

You need to be able to show up by 1 MAY 2019.

Despite what is says in the above document, the deadline for interested applicants is 15 SEPT 2018 via your Specialty Leader. The original deadline was extended.

This entry was posted in Alternative Billets, Education, USUHS and tagged alternative billets, education, USUHS.

Occupational and Environmental Medicine Fundamentals Course – 10-14 SEPT 2018 – Portsmouth, VA

Posted on June 23, 2018 Updated on June 23, 2018

The Navy and Marine Corps Public Health Center (NMCPHC) is excited to announce that
it is sponsoring its third offering of the Occupational and Environmental Medicine Fundamentals course September 10-14, 2018 in Portsmouth, Virginia.

The course is intended for physicians that do not have formal occupational medicine training (i.e. occupational medicine residency or experience) who will be practicing in an occupational medicine clinic or have significant occupational medicine-related workload. The course will cover the history of occupational medicine, workplace hazards, risk communication, Navy occupational health programs, worksite visits, and available resources. It will include clinical case break-out sessions.

The NMCPHC will fully fund the students attending the course, including travel.

They are applying for CME/CNE and anticipate the course will be approved for 30.5 credit hours as it has been in the past.

NMCPHC will coordinate with the Regional Program Managers & OEM Specialty Leader to ensure course seats are given to those according to clinic needs, responsibilities, and assigned job requirements.

Please visit the NMCPHC Occupational Medicine Fundamentals Course webpage for more detailed information and student registration request.

Please read the above webpage carefully to answer your questions. If you still have questions not answered by the webpage, please feel free to contact the people below. Their contact info is in the global e-mail directory.

POCs for questions:

Course Director:
Lynn M. Flowers, DO, MS
LCDR, MC, USN
Occupational & Environmental Medicine Physician
Navy & Marine Corps Public Health Center (NMCPHC)

Course Admin:
Ms. Kimberly Little
Program Analyst
Navy and Marine Corps Public Health Center

This entry was posted in Education, Uncategorized and tagged education.

University Launches New Degree for Veterans Who Want to Go Into Politics

Posted on May 18, 2018

Thought this was an interesting program:

University Launches New Degree for Veterans Who Want to Go Into Politics

This entry was posted in Education, Politics, Public service and tagged education, Politics, Public service.

How to Get Free Audio Digest

Posted on April 25, 2018 Updated on April 25, 2018

Thanks to a colleague of mine, I recently learned that you can get Audio Digest for free. All you need to do is log into this link from a computer at a MTF:

https://membership.audiodigest.org/registration/institutions

This registration page should acknowledge you’re in the Defense Health Agency.

Does this work from a USMC computer? Probably not, but I’m honestly not sure.