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The USPHS Commissioned Corps is committed to our mission to protect, promote, and advance the health and safety of the nation. Public Health Service officers are trained and equipped to provide crucial public health leadership, assist with policy development, advance innovation and science, provide essential care services and respond to national and global public health emergencies. Through our Active Duty Regular Corps, our Public Health Response Strike Team (PHERST) and our Ready Reserve Corps, we remain responsive and available to rapidly deploy in the service of health.
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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.
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Surgeon General Priorities
Surgeon General Priorities
January 2021: United States Public Health Commissioned Corps Doctrine
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FAQs Practice Hours and Special Pay Changes
This is first in a series of FAQs, more FAQs will be forthcoming on Practice Hours and Special Pays.
Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Mission - Deployments Readiness Updates
As we position ourselves to assist with controlling the spread of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), please note that we’re in an “all-hands on deck” status. Messaging has gone out from the Assistant Secretary for Health reminding Commissioned Corps officers of their deployment responsibilities...
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