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- Travel, PCS and Transportation
- Important Regulation Changes
- Travel & Transportation Entitlements Summary
- Permanent Change of Station (PCS)
- Temporary Duty (TDY)
- Junior COSTEP Travel Information
- Official Travel Forms
- Household Goods Officers
- Transportation
- Government Travel Charge Card
- Table of Frequently Used Acronyms
- Servicemembers Civil Relief Act
- Links
- Travel and Transportation Allowances FAQ
- About Officer Support
- Awards-Officer Awards Program
- Nominations Procedures and Forms
- Eligibility to Receive Awards
- Approval Levels
- Types of Recognition & Awards Criteria
- Non-PHS Awards
- Write-Up (Narrative) Guidance & Tips
- List of OPDIV Awards Coordinators (PDF, 67kb)
- List of Liaisons (PDF, 266kb)
- FAQs
- COER
- DEERS Information (PDF, 139kb)
- Important Information Regarding DEERS and ID Cards During COVID-19 (PDF, 57kb)
- eCORPS Information
- Education Benefits Overview
- FAQs
- Forms
- Electronic Official Personnel Folder (eOPF)
- eOPF FAQs
- eOPF Status
- FAQs Practice Hours and Special Pay Changes
- Licensure
- Officer Leave and Absence Request FAQ
- Promotions
- Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA)
- About Policy
- Commissioned Corps Issuance System
- Equal Opportunity
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Political Restrictions
- Promotion Ceremony Protocol (PDF, 126kb)
- SGHG Drill and Ceremonies Manual (PDF, 3.39mb)
- Uniform Specifications
- PHS Hard Shoulder Boards and Sleeve Insignia (Male and Female) (PDF, 828kb)
- PHS Soft Shoulder Marks (Unisex) (PDF, 324kb)
- Medical Requirements for Promotion
- RedDOG Force Readiness Information
- Link to list of Chief Professional Officers (CPO) (PDF, 348kb)
- Link to list of Liaisons (PDF, 266kb)
- Link to list of Professional Advisory Committee (PAC) Chairs (PDF, 19kb)
- Promotion Board Recommendations
- Not promoted? Now What?
- FAQs
- Promotion, Readiness and Compliance FAQs
- Permanent Promotion Eligibility Chart
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- Visit CDC.gov for Coronavirus (COVID-19) Public Health Updates
As Public Health Service Officers and America’s Health Responders, we stand ready to preserve public health and national security during national or global health emergencies. Our mission is to be out the door as soon as requested, as this is an “all hands on deck” situation. All Corps officers were placed on involuntary deploy or "alert" status effective Wednesday, March 25, 2020, irrespective of the 'on-call month' status. Under Commissioned Corps Directive 121.02, "Deployment and Readiness," as directed by Assistant Secretary for Health, Commissioned Corps Headquarters will deploy Commissioned Corps officers assigned to HHS OpDivs/StaffDivs, either voluntarily or involuntarily and without supervisory approval, who are not considered mission critical, for deployments, under the current National Emergency. Mission critical requests sent to CCHQ are not final until the request is approved by the CCHQ Director as per the POM 821.76 ”Deployment Procedures”. An officer with a non-HHS organization may be deployed in accordance with the Memorandum of Agreement/Understanding between the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and the non-HHS organization.
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FAQ for CCD 125.03 Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS)
No, USUHS offers some programs for civilians and uniformed service members (including the Corps) and other programs just for uniformed service members. Civilians who apply to a USUHS program that is limited to uniformed service members (such as the M.D. program) must first join one of the seven uniformed services. During the application process, civilian candidates selected for interviews must rank these services by their preference of assignment upon graduation.
Yes. An officer may apply to USUHS for a non-medical degree with written approval from Commissioned Corps Headquarters (CCHQ) and approval from his/her agency or OPDIV/STAFFDIV.
ADO is the period of time that an officer is obligated to serve on active duty in return for service support of long-term training or other extramural education activities; the ADO is served to the Corps at the sponsoring agency.
A CSO is the active service and any reserve service the officer is obligated to serve in return for service support of long-term training or other extramural education activities.
The ADO begins on the date of appointment in the Regular Corps after graduation and ends on the tenth anniversary of that appointment. However, the ADO goes on hiatus while the officer undergoes Internship/Graduate Medical Education (GME), which may impose its own ADO. So, most graduates will not complete their ADO on the tenth anniversary.
An officer with an ADO from attending USUHS medical school cannot leave the Regular Corps until he/she has completed a minimum of 7 years in the Corps. If the officer transfers to the Reserve after completing 7 years, the ADO turns into a CSO and is extended as follows:
Period of Service on Active Duty Ready Reserve Obligation Less than 8 years 6 years 8 years or more, but less than 9 4 years 9 years or more, but less than 10 2 years 10 years or more none No, the Corps now has its own long-term Ready Reserve Corps and expects to begin accepting applications/transfers by the end of 2020. So, officers who have completed a minimum of 7 years of their ADO can request a transfer to the Corps’ Ready Reserve and have their CSO extended as explained above.
No, the ADO agreement must be signed prior to an assignment as a student to USUHS. The agreement sets forth the officers’ ADO/CSO to the Corps and to the agency sponsoring the officer. It also specifies what happens if he/she is dropped from the school, voluntarily withdraws from enrollment, or graduates.
No.
The fulfillment of an ADO is suspended while an officer is in full-time training, including any additional training after the medical officer completes his/her internship. The ADO will start again after the training is completed.
Yes. However, in this case the Corps will reappoint the officer as a Junior Assistant Health Services Officer (Ensign/O-1) in the Regular Corps during his/her time at USUHS as a full-time medical student. However, an officer who is selected from the active-duty roles to be a full-time USUHS medical student is paid basic pay based on the former grade and years of service until the officer’s basic pay for his/her current grade and years of service is a larger amount.
Officers who repeat a year or a portion of a year at USUHS or who require extra time to graduate, will incur an additional ADO of one-half year for each additional one-half year or portion of repeated work.