MGT Only: Medical school

[ArcaneFlash]

Okay, I have a question on creating a Navy Doctor with HG.

According to HG, the Doctor attends the Naval Academy (Support College). He chooses six Service Skills at Rank 0 and one Specialty Skill at Rank 1.

As a medical division officer at O1 he could raise his Medical Specialty skill to Medical-2.

But shouldn't our Ship's doctor attend the Academy or University first then attend Medical school? If he graduates from the academy first, should he be commissioned in Med school? How should Med school be handled?

 

[Timerover51]

Okay, I have a question on creating a Navy Doctor with HG.

According to HG, the Doctor attends the Naval Academy (Support College). He chooses six Service Skills at Rank 0 and one Specialty Skill at Rank 1.

As a medical division officer at O1 he could raise his Medical Specialty skill to Medical-2.

But shouldn't our Ship's doctor attend the Academy or University first then attend Medical school? If he graduates from the academy first, should he be commissioned in Med school? How should Med school be handled?

In the Real World, military doctors attend medical school first, and become doctors, and then get direct commissions into the appropriate branch of service. No Naval or other military academy is involved. If assigned to a hospital where there is a medical school paired with it, he or she may gain some specialization within the medical field. An M.D. in the real world is commissioned as an O-3 Captain or Lieutenant (senior grade) if navy. Nurses with B.S in Nursing who have passed the Nursing Board are commissioned as 0-2.

 

[ArcaneFlash]

I realize IRW it would go University - Medical School - to comission in service.

But MgT is a slightly different animal. I'm trying to get that sequence feel in MgT, just not sure the best way to do it. Is it too far fetched for a Military Academy grad to go on the Medical school?

 

[Timerover51]

I realize IRW it would go University - Medical School - to comission in service.

But MgT is a slightly different animal. I'm trying to get that sequence feel in MgT, just not sure the best way to do it. Is it too far fetched for a Military Academy grad to go on the Medical school?

Not really, if he/she could show a strong aptitude for it, and they needed doctors who understood the military. Just figure on automatic promotion upon graduating from Med School.

 

[ArcaneFlash]

How would you handle Medical School skills?

 

[aramis]

I realize IRW it would go University - Medical School - to comission in service.

Not always - Some military docs did premed and ROTC, then reserve duty while in Med School, then their internship as 1st lieutenants. (I've encountered one such intern recently - EDF Hospital.)

 

[Spinward Scout]

In the Real World, military doctors attend medical school first, and become doctors, and then get direct commissions into the appropriate branch of service. No Naval or other military academy is involved. If assigned to a hospital where there is a medical school paired with it, he or she may gain some specialization within the medical field. An M.D. in the real world is commissioned as an O-3 Captain or Lieutenant (senior grade) if navy. Nurses with B.S in Nursing who have passed the Nursing Board are commissioned as 0-2.

I think it's more like this only when there's a Draft and Doctors are in short supply in the Military. You can attend the US Naval Academy then go to MedSchool - but there just aren't a lot of slots open, so it's harder to qualify. I've read it's actually easier through the Military Academy then to Med School than through the Naval Academy (though it's odd that a lot of the recent Surgeons General have been Navy).

 

[Garyius2003]

In the Real World, military doctors attend medical school first, and become doctors, and then get direct commissions into the appropriate branch of service. No Naval or other military academy is involved. If assigned to a hospital where there is a medical school paired with it, he or she may gain some specialization within the medical field. An M.D. in the real world is commissioned as an O-3 Captain or Lieutenant (senior grade) if navy. Nurses with B.S in Nursing who have passed the Nursing Board are commissioned as 0-2.

There are three main ways US military doctors become doctors in the military.

1. Traditional. They complete medical school, and are given a commission and sent for a short training course in being an officer and longer classes on military medicine.

2. They use a funding method in medical school (there are several programs), where they are commissioned as an O-1 in the school and paid at least for their military training courses and some money for tuition/fees, some programs provide more money but they require more payback time.

3. There is a US military medical school just outside DC, where the students are full time O-1s, if they were prior officers before the school they are paid at their old rate even though they are O-1s

Once they complete medical school they are commissioned as O-3s. Depending on the program they used, they owe years of service for medical school, and residency, with some offset between the two pay back periods.

 

[Kilgs]

A military academy is a 4yr degree like any other college and all that's required (IRW) for Med School so they don't need to go to another round of it. It's not represented in MGT or other Trav games because skills are limited. But it counts.

How would you handle Medical School skills?

If your character went to Medical School, I would do the Scholar (Physician) route but allow a choice in Medic. Since you need Medic 2+ to be a Navy (Support) Ship's Doctor, you'll need the Medic/1 from your first term and then the promotion to bring you up to Medic/2. If you don't get the promotion, just consider your character serving his first term as an EMS/Surgery Support role.

 

[Sylvre Phire]

You can also try the pre-career education system posted to Planet Mongoose or the pre-career education options published in the second of Spica Publishing's career books.

Judging from the most recent post on Planet Mongoose, it would seem the pre-career education options are going to be released in polished format in Book 1's second edition.

Pax et bonum,

Dale