military medicine

HPSP Student To-Do List, by Year

January 1, 2016 Indy (admin) The Health Professions Scholarship Program (HPSP)

In the spirit of New Year’s resolutions… I get a lot of questions from people about what they should be doing. It goes something like this: “Um… I’m an M1 and I started classes a week ago… Am I supposed to be doing something to prepare for the military match?” Or this: “I’m in my last week of M3 and

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The Health Professions Scholarship Program, or Getting Uncle Sam to pay for medical school

February 6, 2015 Indy (admin) The Health Professions Scholarship Program (HPSP)

As a medical student on a military scholarship, I get a lot of questions about the benefits, the downsides, and how to go about getting your very own military scholarship. As part of a series of posts about the military Health Professions Scholarship Program (HPSP), today we will be talking about the basics: what it is, what it pays for,