Overview
As a Navy Reserve Medical Service Corps Officer, you’ll be part of a highly diversified medical team consisting of clinical care providers, health-care administrators and health-care sciences personnel.
Description
The business of helping others can be more rewarding than one could imagine. Your expertise in health care can better lives — starting with your own. If you’re a seasoned medical specialist, just starting out or still working on your degree, know that there are exciting opportunities waiting for you in the Navy Reserve.
In the Medical Service Corps, everyday management, science or clinical care goes far beyond the routine. Your coordination could lead a young refugee to a hospital ship for life-saving surgery. Your support in physical therapy may result in a crippled child walking again, pain-free. Your discoveries in the laboratory could lead to breakthrough results and help cure infectious diseases.
Working as a key member of the Navy Medical Service Corps, you can embark on a career that breaks boundaries and makes a difference in the world, all while earning an impressive benefits package that includes graduate school loan repayment or financial assistance, specialty pay, educational incentives, travel and much more.
These are not the everyday issues faced by someone overseeing a typical health institution, conducting health research or practicing clinical psychology. Rather, this is a brief glimpse into the potential priorities of a Navy Medical Service Corps member. And, without question, these responsibilities can lead to so much more.
Specifics
- There are 22 unique practice areas available in the Medical Service Corps, broken down into three specific areas: Health Care Administration, Health Care Science and Clinical Care.
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- Health Care Administration
- Health Care Science
- Aerospace Experimental Psychology
- Aerospace Physiology
- Biochemistry
- Entomology
- Environmental Health
- Industrial Hygiene
- Medical Technology
- Microbiology
- Physiology
- Radiation Health
- Research Psychology
- Clinical Care Providers
- Audiology
- Clinical Psychology
- Dietetics/Food Management
- Occupational Therapy
- Optometry
- Pharmacy
- Physical Therapy
- Physician Assistant
- Podiatry
- Social Work
Whether organizing teams of physicians, dentists and nurses; making impactful breakthroughs in the laboratory; or providing expert clinical care, you’ll be at the center of it all.
In the Navy Medical Service Corps, each member is a respected Officer on a renowned team of specialists — supporting one of the largest health-care networks on earth. Here, you could hold important specialist positions in cutting-edge medical and dental treatment facilities worldwide. Anywhere from Bethesda, Md., to San Diego, Calif.; in locations from Spain to Japan; aboard state-of-the-art hospital ships at sea; or even close to your home.
In a competitive health-care environment, your focus will be on the bigger picture: Doing whatever it takes to make the vast accomplishments of Navy Health Care possible. As a specialist in the Navy Medical Service Corps, you will bring leadership and efficiency wherever you go — from the most high-profile setting to the most remote.
Financial Offers
Practicing Health Professionals
- In the Navy Reserve Medical Service Corps, you’ll receive a first-rate benefits package — including your choice of any one of these three generous financial offers:*
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- Up to $50,000 in graduate school loan repayment assistance
- Up to $30,000 in specialty pay
- An immediate one-time sign-on bonus of up to $10,000
*Offers cannot be combined and depend on specialty. Sign-on bonus offer option available only to those with prior Navy experience (NAVET).
Health Services Graduate Students
- If you join the Navy Reserve Medical Service Corps while enrolled in a postgraduate science, research, management or clinical care program, you can get:
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- A monthly stipend of $2,060 while completing your education program
- Plus up to $50,000 in graduate school loan repayment assistance
Note: Offers based on service commitment. Contact a Navy Reserve Medical Officer Recruiter for complete offer details.
Training
With flexible training options, Navy Reserve Medical Service Officers can comfortably balance civilian and military schedules. You can maintain your own life and your civilian employment, all while enriching both with the rewarding work you do for others. And you’ll do this serving as few as two days each month and two weeks each year — with opportunities for additional service and pay.
You will find yourself advancing your career and life as never before, as well as experiencing the purpose, pride and satisfaction one achieves while serving. In as little as one weekend a month and two weeks a year, you could maintain the position you hold right now, all while promoting your future and the greater good within the Medical Service Corps of the Navy Reserve.
Requirements
Citizenship — Applicants must be a U.S. citizen or foreign citizen currently practicing in the U.S. (see a Navy Reserve Medical Officer Recruiter for details).
Education — Varies by discipline.
Licensing — Applicants must be licensed in a civilian capacity (as applicable) in order to be eligible for a commission.
Age — Candidates should be at least 18 and no older than 40 years of age at the time of their appointment.
To read more about the Navy Medical Service Corps, visit the Navy Medical Service Corps page on Navy.com.
To learn how you can join the Navy Reserve Medical Service Corps, visit ways to join or contact a Navy Reserve Recruiter.