Posted on Nov 19, 2015
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Branches just came out for my class of 2016. I am G2GADO and am on the top third of the OML for the accessions process. However, the Army didn't get enough Branch details for Infantry so the Infantry chose me. I requested for Medical Services so my transition to USUHS (medical school) would be easier. I am definitely not happy with this choice and I know I am not the first person it happened to but I was wondering if there is anything I could do to appeal this decision or if there is any recourse. Of course, I am more than willing to continue this path IBOLC, Range school, and Airborne, but my desire is to be an Army Surgeon.

I could still drop my PA packet but I honestly wouldn't be satisfied truly if I wasn't a doctor. Please give me your professional opinions and guidance!
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Capt Daniel Goodman
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https://sophas.org/

You wanna boost your chances of getting a US program, trust me, MPH and DrPH or PHD in public health is taken very seriously, one guy in the program I was in got into DO with an MPH after a year where we were doing the allied-health doctorate I was in with him, he transferred out....
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https://www.usuhs.edu/pmb/tph-training

This is a certificate program on tropical med USUHS has for svc personnel only done purely online, it's totally backed up on admits, however, you likely haven't seen stuff on it, I looked into it in some depth, though I can't do it, unfortunately, I did at least ask, though....
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https://search.aol.com/aol/search?q=usuhs%20phd%20programs&s_it=loki-tb-sb

And these, esp the PhD programs, which can be done as civil servant, as well....
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https://search.aol.com/aol/search?q=army%20interservice%20physician%20assistant%20program&s_it=loki-tb-sb

I know you don't want PA, I get that, however, trust me, and look at this, OK?
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And I need to know more to help you...your motivations, reasons, prior exposure, what serious bio coursework you've had, your undergrad major(s), associates, bachelors, grad-level stuff, hobbies, interests, reading tastes, sports incl and esp martial arts, if any, I have an interest in career/educ stuff, trust me, I deal in VERY specific advice, not generalities, I trained in 10 different teaching hospitals under God-only knows how many clinicians, in three different states, incl 7 yrs of allied-health postdoc residency, of which I finished six before my disability, I treated some 10000 patients in all, assisted with some 200-300 surgeries, so I may not have seen everything, just trust me, other than OB/GYN, peds, and some more anesthesiology, I saw just about all of it, incl doing some psychiatry coursework, as the allied-health doctoral program I was in had a PA masters program attached with a psychiatrist on faculty whose course I sat in on, along with doing multiple psych rotations, trust me, you're not looking at every possibility, I'm gonna show you things no one else on here is likely to give you, promise, just trust me implicitly, and look at EVERYTHING I'll send you, I assure you, you'll see why immediately, promise, OK? I might perhaps overwhelm, though that's not my intention, of course, my object is to help you actually get what you want, I just need you to be flexible, and absorb what I suggest, then look at ALL of it, I failed to get it (though God knows I tried), you MIGHT be able, IF you look at what I'm gonna try to give you, honest, promise, OK?
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