Recent content by usma05

What MTGas2B said. Navy Reserve anesthesia consultant said they were actively trying to change this back last year when I chatted w/ ASA. Army/Air Force still do it.

Kind of depends on your MOS. Given the FRSD option im imagining gen surg, ortho, ER, or CRNA. Honestly be flexible and prepare to be bored. While globally things look terrible, the OPTEMPO hasnt reached a critical mass yet. Boredom is good, it means someone isnt acutely decompensating out...

"Recruit"= HCPDS (Health Care Personnel Delivery System). They'll get their Hawkeyes and Trapper Johns to go with their COL Potters and Frank Burns of the residual AD force and round it out. The law is already there waiting.

Go check out what really happens at the drill hall in between sign-in and sign-out. Learn the secret of the sauce. It ain't sexy or fun. And then contemplate having to explain to your med school why you have to be excused for it when their frustrated and you realize drill isn't as fun as you...

This is a bad idea. The Big Green Weenie cares not, and your med school is going to say you misrepresented yourself as your intention before checking that box 'civilian' was not to be a civilian. You're asking for drama, and I don't get why. Just do STRAP or whatever it's called where your...

I'm on 15th year currently (13 AD, 2 USAR) and have only heard DENTAC or dental clinic, never DTF. MTF I've heard so many times I've lost count. Guess I wasn't in the right crowd to hear it. 🤷‍♀️

I've never heard a dental clinic called DTF until now. 😂

Just need a celeb to abuse Etomidate to round out the induction options.

You can't be a GMO without completing an intern year. Instead you could rank transitional intern years and then go do gmo which is a separate match process midway through your intern year.

Yeah, we'd do caths for 10-14 days occasionally if needed at Wally World back in '11-14 but I think it was a unique situation with patient characteristics and pain team setup. I haven't seen something similar anywhere else I've worked and wouldn't recommend it without a robust pain team setup...

Two takeaways i got from the DARPA posting: 1. Anesthesiologists are too valuable for the battlefield. Surgeons arent. 2. They really said anesthesia hasnt changed since the Civil War. Who did they talk to that's doing MAC cases with a stick to bite on and a bottle of whiskey?

Destroying and rebuilding a Medical Corps seems like a bad idea to me. I know they have a legal means to do the doctor draft in a pinch, but knowing what's out in civilian world there are many that have zero interest in complying with that law. At the minimum it'll be a more timely endeavor...

As a fellow uppity O-5 anesthesiologist I think you're reading into this article. I took some time to read it and I'm not seeing much outside what the military has been saying for at least 8-9 years. Even prior to my anesthesia days when I deployed as a flight doc at the height of the Afghan...

Honest question. Is there no legal or congressional recourse for this? In a minor way, it's kind of giving me Bonus Army vibes.

Well that sucks for the 90 days rule. Re: hpsp credit....I've seen Navy had taken it away, what's your source for Army? I ask cause I know multiple people that got credit in the last couple years and haven't heard of an acute change. Also, they'll just enact the doctor draft that's been in...