November 5, 2024

Pros and Cons of military service to pay for medical / professional school- HPSP (the health professional scholarship program)

In this article I want to write about the pros and cons of the military as a way of financing medical education. I may not be fully aware of the recent changes to the HPSP program but I did a fair amount of research about the topic before I ended up not going though with it. I want whoever is thinking about doing this to think seriously and give it some critical thought before signing up.

A very thorough look at the dollars and decisions of being a military physician.

1 thought on “Pros and Cons of military service to pay for medical / professional school- HPSP (the health professional scholarship program)

  1. He’s figuring the interest on 154K of student loans will be only 25K. That sounds low to me, maybe someone else could chime in on that.

    I figured I about broke even on the HPSP thing compared to non-military. I did have much less financial worries though medical school and residency than most of my non-HPSP colleagues. Overall I don’t know that I would make the same choice again, though.

    On the physical fitness standards, I was in the best shape of my life when I was in the military mainly from trying to meet the standards, so can’t complain much about that.

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