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FY19 Enlisted to Medical Degree Prep Program
Here’s the NAVADMIN for this program. Make sure you share it with any qualified enlisted personnel you know:
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SUBJ/ FISCAL YEAR 2019 ENLISTED TO MEDICAL DEGREE PREPARATORY PROGRAM
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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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Mount Sinai’s Icahn School of Medicine Establishes Institutional Partnership With U.S. Navy, Streamlining Pathway for Servicemembers
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.
1st 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 50th anniversary this year, is available online.
USU Assistant Dean for Clinical Sciences – CDR(sel) or Above
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.
Occupational and Environmental Medicine Fundamentals Course – 10-14 SEPT 2018 – Portsmouth, VA
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
University Launches New Degree for Veterans Who Want to Go Into Politics
Thought this was an interesting program:
University Launches New Degree for Veterans Who Want to Go Into Politics
How to Get Free Audio Digest
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.
New USU School of Medicine On-Line Faculty Appointment System
The Uniformed Services University School of Medicine has a new on-line faculty appointment system. You can read about it in this newsletter:
Faculty Development Newsletter Apr 2018
You can see an on-line tutorial about how to use it here:
Navy Asks Congress for More Authority to Sidestep ‘Up-or-Out’ Personnel System
This article is an interesting read about continued efforts to revise the Navy personnel system:
Navy Asks Congress for More Authority to Sidestep ‘Up-or-Out’ Personnel System
Internal Medicine Program Director – National Capital Consortium
The details of this position are in this document:
SG Announcement Ltr for Internal Medicine Residency Program Director Search 29 March 2018
The applications are due by 30 APR. Templates of the CV, bio, and letter of intent can be found here.
Naval Postgraduate School Distance Learning MBA Program NAVADMIN
This is how I got my MBA:
UNCLASSIFIED ROUTINE R 161750Z FEB 18 FM CNO WASHINGTON DC TO NAVADMIN INFO CNO WASHINGTON DC BT UNCLAS NAVADMIN 035/18 PASS TO OFFICE CODES: FM CNO WASHINGTON DC//N1// INFO CNO WASHINGTON DC//N1// MSGID/GENADMIN/CNO WASHINGTON DC/N1/FEB// SUBJ/EXECUTIVE MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION DISTANCE LEARNING DEGREE PROGRAM FOR SEPTEMBER 2018// REF/A/MSG/CNO WASHINGTON DC/N1/061710ZAUG07// AMPN/REF A IS NAVADMIN 195/07, OFFICER GRADUATE EDUCATION SERVICE OBLIGATION.// RMKS/1. This NAVADMIN announces application procedures for the September 2018 Distance Learning Executive Master of Business Administration (EMBA) program. 2. The Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) defense-focused EMBA is a 24 month, fully-funded, part-time graduate program focused on resource management. The program targets middle to senior grade active-duty officers, lieutenant commander (select) and above (lieutenant by waiver). Classes are delivered via online technologies with synchronous interaction between faculty and students. 3. The EMBA program begins with a required one-week Temporary Additional Duty (TAD) in-residence session at NPS in Monterey, CA. The week of 10-14 September 2018 includes an orientation and a graduate level course on management of teams. A second week of required TAD in-residence instruction will be scheduled during the second year of the EMBA program. Other than these two visits to NPS Monterey, students complete all instruction from their home locations. A block of rooms will be reserved in Monterey, CA for attendees during orientation. All efforts will be made to minimize TAD costs. 4. The parent command of the student will provide official travel orders and funding for TAD travel. If command funding is not available, students may fund their own travel and utilize no-cost TAD orders from their commands. 5. Active duty Naval officers accepted into the EMBA program are integrated into cohorts with civilian students. Typically, a cohort is comprised of about 25 students from which student teams are formed. Cohorts take all classes together during the 24 months of instruction. Students will receive instruction via online, synchronous educational software, with faculty teaching every session in real time, 1 day per week for approximately 6 to 7 hours per day during regular continental United States duty hours. Admission to the EMBA program is available to applicants in any geographic location, regardless of the number of applicants in a location. Since courses are delivered via online learning technologies, students must have access to a computer with high- speed internet and audio-video capabilities suitable for web-enabled interactions with instructors and students. A computer camera or webcam is required. 6. Eligibility requirements include an undergraduate degree from a regionally accredited 4 year college or university, 2.6 grade point average or higher on a 4 point scale, and at least one college-level mathematics course. A commanding officer endorsement letter is required to participate in the program. Department head or similar mid-level management experience and strong potential for promotion are preferred. Participants must have a projected rotation date no earlier than September 2020. The Graduate Management Admission Test is not required. 7. Graduates will be awarded an EMBA degree from NPS and the Navy subspecialty code 3100P, Financial Management-Defense Focus. Graduates will also earn Defense Acquisition University Level II equivalencies for all program management functional equivalencies. As directed by reference (a), officers participating in this program must agree to remain on active duty following completion of graduate studies for a period of 3 years. This obligation is discharged concurrently with any other service obligation already incurred. This agreement does not obligate the Navy to retain the officer on active duty. 8. Officers interested in the EMBA program can visit the NPS EMBA home page at www.nps.edu/emba for detailed eligibility and application process information. Deadline for the application process is no later than 15 June 2018. Online instruction begins 26 September 2018. 9. Point of contact is the NPS EMBA program office, at (831) 656- 2562/DSN 756, fax at (831) 656-3630, or via e-mail at emba(at)nps.edu. 10. This NAVADMIN will remain in effect until superseded or 31 December 2018, whichever occurs first. 11. Released by Vice Admiral R. P. Burke, N1.// BT #0001 NNNN UNCLASSIFIED//
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