Posted on Nov 29, 2018
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I am currently a medical student. After medical school, I plan to become board-certified in Family Medicine, Emergency Medicine, or Internal Medicine. I am very interested in Civil Affairs, and I hoped to join a CA unit through the reserves.

Do Civil Affairs units have any use for physicians? What might a physician do in a civil affairs unit? What MOS would this fall under?

I have heard that physicians in civil affairs units can help with training local doctors, helping develop new health systems abroad, etc. How true is this?
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http://www.omao.noaa.gov

Read about this....
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http://www.susnfs.org/

This too...also, if you go USPHS as a flight surgeon, you can also get assigned to USCG, which uses USPHS for all clinical stuff other than having their own PAs, for the most part, I've gathered...you can also go with the NOAA Commissioned Corps, which has its own aviation component....
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http://www.sgaus.org

I merely point this out, as they have a senior physician as part of their group...this is the professional group for the state defense forces (SDFs), not all states have them, however, the one good thing about them is, they let one see if one can adapt to svc life before going Federal...now, understand, they're real militaries, just under sevl states, they supplement the Natl Guard, our dentist, as my sugestion, joined the NY Guard (NYG), liked it, then transferred to Federal going ARNG, as he had a friend who'd wanted him, he just wasn't sure if it'd be for him...I explain all that as most generally don't know the SDFs exist, that's my only reason for explaining about them to you, OK? Also, what was your bachelors in, did you do any grad stuff, MPH, whatever, before you went allo or osteo, what were your GPAs there, as well, it'd help to know that, if you can go into it at all, if you'd rather not, I entirely understand, of course...also, in an SDF, you're not ordinarily deployed out of state, and, if a Federal svc picks you up, my understanding is you can normally be released, just as was the case with our dentist, whom I've known for about 30 yrs now....
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_Medical_Research_Institute_of_Infectious_Diseases

Read this...you wanna see reality, not fantasy? Ask to do a rotation with them...I don't know if they'd let you as a civilian, you might have to be on scholarship, however, I merely point it out to at least look through....
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