Recruiting
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.
Corps Chief Office’s Talent Management Officer Position
For those who have reviewed the Surgeon General’s FY25 Campaign Order, you are aware of the heightened emphasis on recruiting and retention. In addition to offering specialties an opportunity for centrally-funded travel to conferences and scientific meetings for recruiting activities, the SG has authorized the creation of a new Talent Management Team to support Line of Effort 4, Recruitment and Retention. The team will consist of one member from each Corps to support Navy Medicine Enterprise’s strategic initiatives, communication platforms, recruitment and retention efforts and strategies, and outreach events. O-5/O-5 select officers are preferred and must be eligible to PCS to BUMED on or about spring/summer 2025 for a 36-month tour. Candidates should submit the following: CV, Bio, OSR/PSR, Letter of Intent, and Command Endorsement to the Corps Chief Office NLT 23 December 2024. Applications should be submitted to LT Grace Lowitzer (contact in the global). If you want to be a part of making our Medical Corps healthy again, please consider applying.
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