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I am a board certified Family Medicine doc that will be finishing my time with military in about 2 years I am lost when it comes to the job search. Are you using practicelink.com, doccafe, etc (online services)? Are you asking your residency programs? I am currently stationed overseas but...

I am currently a flight doc in the Air Force, here's my 2 cents Got HPSP, matched into Family Medicine residency, however, I was 1 of 6 preselected spots that matched into "family medicine/flight medicine." This means that instead of becoming an FP doc after residency, I went straight into a...

I am looking at the application to be a fellow in AAFP, and it really isn't that much. 100 pts and 6 years (both resident and active) in AAFP. Is this another ploy to get $175 and to spend money on conferences sponsored by AAFP? I don't see how this helps other than advertising myself or...

When I interviewed, my goal was to determine if this applicant was a good fit with our program, ie not a hermit. As far as academics, if there are no huge problems, you should get in. However, if there is a problem (ie boards, GPA, whatever), I ask, see how you respond, and move on. With...

I knew I wanted to do a military residency so I spent most of my time shopping the different FP residencies (and 1 IM residency) - Went to Keesler for IM because I was deciding between IM and FP, interviewed here - Went to Eglin to see the FP residency, interviewed (I did a flight med...

I did the campus ADT because they couldn't get me into COT right away; I had already quit my job in anticipation so I needed the cash In retrospect, I should've used up all my ADTs for military stuff I am HPSP but I did 6 military rotations 2 ADTs, 4 out of pocket Travis x 2 (flight med...

There are many people who choose this and it works out great. When I rotated at Travis, all 3 flight docs were getting out to do civilian residencies. They went to neuro, anesthesia and derm. They did their 3-4 years and got out. I also have a friend who wants to do Physical...

I used to keep track of how many FP defers were allowed each year just for kicks. There have only been a handful of deferments which I can remember (off the top of my head, some years have 2-3 defers, some have none) We need to clarify something - IFB says 10 FP slots will go to deferment...

Yes, you can indeed attend AMP while in residency or even as a medical student. I know because there were ANG, and civilian medical students (on ANG orders) when I went through it. It is up to the residency program and you will have to schedule it early if you want to do the full 6 weeks. (or...

without a doubt, pathology seen at Scott outweighs those seen at eglin and travis. Our in-patient population is a mix of civilian and military *mostly civilian though. There is currently no cap for admissions at scott (though behind the scenes they are working on one now). I've admitted as much...

Travis - 16 slots per year, normally get about 15-20 applicants who place it as #1 Nellis - Newest program, not sure about the numbers Scott - Combined program with SLU civilian residents, 8 military slots, about 8-10 per year put as #1 Offutt - combined with local university is well...

Sir, I actually read your article in the most recent flightlines. Being a Pilot-physician can be a very exciting job and it looks like it has a lot of potential for both the flying community as well as the medical community. One question I had (and I apologize for it being on an open forum...

Well, it's been 3 year since I originally posted this <EDIT - holy cow it's actually been 4 years!!> I graduated, got married, had a kid, am now chief at a military residency and will become a flight surgeon right out of residency, most likely with AFSOC (met a few people who remembered me from...

I googled and wikipedia, so if anyone has the same question, here is the answer my Comlex step 3 score = 428, mean = 500, SD = 120 428 - 500 / 120 = -0.6 (my z score) http://www.acposb.on.ca/conversion.htm based on above table, I score in 27.4 percentile But if I look at my 2...

BTW, can anyone remind me how to calculate percentile by this score?