Upon completion of medical school, you would apply to the Navy. You would attend OIS in Newport. Then you would receive a commission into the medical corps.
Ships surgeon, M.O. (Medical Officer) or doctor.
Ships surgeon, M.O. (Medical Officer) or doctor.
To become a Navy doctor, you would typically need to complete a Bachelor's degree, then attend medical school and earn a Medical Doctor (MD) or Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO) degree. After that, you would apply for a residency program in a specialty of your choice. Once you've completed your residency, you can apply to join the Navy as a commissioned officer in the Medical Corps.
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McHale's Navy - 1962 Little Red Riding Doctor 4-25 is rated/received certificates of: Australia:G
McHale's Navy - 1962 Little Red Riding Doctor 4-25 was released on: USA: 8 March 1966
In the UK, it is Senior Naval Doctor, or Senior Legal Professional. Basically, a Doctor or a Lawyer, but in the Navy. In the US, the base salary depends on the pay grade, which is not exactly the same as rank but is closely related, and (in some cases) the number of years in service. There isn't a specific "part of the navy" that pays more, though there is a small bonus for hazardous duty.
To become a Navy doctor, you must first complete a bachelor's degree, preferably in a science field, before attending medical school. After completing medical school and earning your MD or DO degree, you will need to complete a residency program in a specialty of your choosing. Following residency, you can apply to join the Navy as a medical officer, and if accepted, you will go through commissioning and training processes specific to the Navy.
One can enlist as young as 17 years of age, however it is impractical to say that they would still be 17 after their training to become a corpsman. It would be easy to say 18 years old.
Thomas Tomzak is the current mayor of Fredericksburg VA. He is a Navy veteran and doctor who was elected in 2008 in a landslide race.
No, Matthew Flinders' father (also named Matthew Flinders) was a surgeon/doctor in Flinders' home-town of Donington, Lincolnshire. He had hoped that young Matthew would follow in his footsteps and become a doctor as well, but when his son's interest in joining the navy became evident, he allowed Matthew to join the Royal Navy at the age of 15.
It depends on the size of the ship. In the US Navy cruisers, destroyers and frigates normally do not have a doctor on board, they will have a couple of corpsman, sort of super EMTs, to stabilize individuals until they can be medi-vaced to a ship or shore station with a hospital. Many of the larger amphibious ships and all the air craft carriers will have doctors and dentists aboard.