...Go to med school with any tuition assistance, be subjected to compulsory service for twice as long as schooling.
‘‘(V) to serve for a period of time (referred to in this part as the ‘period of obligated service’) within the Commissioned Corps of the Public Health Service equal to 2 years for each school year during which such individual was enrolled at the College, reduced as provided for in paragraph (3);
So, for 8 years of school you might be an indentured servant for 16 years!?!
Oh, yeah, lots of people will get into medicine under that regime. LOL
You could be fifty years old before you were allowed to start a private practice.
No, they only count the 4 years of medical school, making it 8 years. This is the same deal the military offers would be doctors and dentists. But of course you are practicing during that period, and essentially doing internship and residency. You make it to private practice about the same time, or just a bit latter. But you're debt free. Not a Bad Deal.
Other than the chance of getting shot or hit by an IED, which is small for medical types, military docs probably have better working conditions, and certainly have more worthwhile patients.
Of course knowing Obummer, he'll probably merge the military medical corps with the public health service.