Overview
As an Officer and physician in the Navy Reserve Medical Corps, you’ll encounter unique and intensified medical and nonmedical experiences that will accelerate your career development and increase your knowledge base.
Description
An elite practitioner. A medical ambassador. A hero to our nation. While the title of M.D. or D.O. is an honorable distinction, serving as a Navy Reserve Physician is an even more enriching one. Whether you’re an established physician or just starting out, there are many exciting, challenging and rewarding opportunities.
You’ll practice something far beyond everyday medicine. Under your care, a child injured by a powerful storm that struck without warning. In your waiting room, underprivileged families desperate for a free vaccine. In the course of your rounds, heartfelt thanks from our nation’s servicemembers.
Serving in the Navy Reserve, you can expand upon your role as a provider and make a difference in the world, all while earning an impressive benefits package that includes available sign-on bonuses, loan repayment assistance, specialty pay, educational incentives, travel and more.
This is not your typical emergency room, your average office or your local clinic. It is a brief glimpse into Navy Medicine — and the truth is, it can be so much more.
Specifics
In the Navy Reserve, each physician is a respected Officer on a renowned team of specialists — anchoring one of the largest health-care systems on earth. Here, you’ll work with the latest tools and technologies at cutting-edge facilities stateside and abroad, merging the best aspects of civilian and military medicine to gain expertise and versatility that are unmatched. Primarily, you’ll look after the medical needs of the brave men and women who serve our country, their families and other beneficiaries who have served. You may also fill in for deployed Active Duty Navy Medical Officers, working mainly at locations that are typically close to your home.
Navy Reserve Physicians go beyond the scope of traditional care, treating thousands of civilians globally each year. While serving, you’ll have the opportunity to forge partnerships with foreign governments, International Relief Teams and organizations such as FEMA, USAID and Project HOPE, delivering medical and civic assistance — and hope — to people in need.
Navy Medicine stands at the forefront of modern medicine with opportunities in any of 30 specialty and subspecialty areas. Everything from emergency medicine to preventative medicine, radiology and surgery. Here, you’ll have the chance to perform groundbreaking work. Pioneering the advancement of trauma treatment. Using virtual teleconferencing. Or even achieving milestones in everything from organ transplants to retinal implants, cryotherapy applications and next-generation vaccines.
Financial Offers
Practicing Physicians
- In the Navy Reserve Medical 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 $75,000 in specialty pay
- Up to $50,000 in medical school loan repayment assistance
- 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).
Medical Residents
- If you join the Navy Reserve Medical Corps as a resident, you can get:
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- A monthly stipend of $1,992 while completing your residency program
- Plus up to $50,000 in medical 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 Officers can comfortably balance civilian and military schedules. You can maintain your own life and your own practice, 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.
The Navy Reserve Medical Corps offers you a truly diverse variety of academic, clinical and operational settings in which to practice. In some cases, you can even work in the same civilian hospital or setting you work in now. What’s more, you will enjoy an unrivaled sense of pride and fulfillment known only to those who serve.
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 — Applicants must be a graduate of a medical school approved by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education or the American Medical Association (AMA). Or a graduate of a school of osteopathy approved by the American Osteopathic Association.
Foreign medical graduates must have completed a residency program approved by the AMA, be board-certified in a specialty considered critical to the Navy Reserve, and have at least two years of experience following completion of residency. Consideration is on a case-by-case basis.
Licensing — All candidates must be currently licensed to practice medicine, surgery or osteopathy in the United States. To be considered, applicants must be currently engaged in clinical practice of the specialty being considered.
Age — Candidates must be at least 20 and no older than 40 years of age at the time of appointment. Older applicants may be considered on a case-by-case basis, depending upon qualifications and the needs of the Navy Reserve.
To read more about Navy Physicians, visit the Navy Medical Corps page at Navy.com.
To learn more about becoming a Physician in the Navy Reserve, visit ways to join or contact a Navy Reserve Recruiter.