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What do I do with a degree in Biology and pre-med?

Im active duty enlisted usaf and i want to go to a university for a degree in biology for premed what can i do?

  • I know there are some programs to get your degree and be an officer but i dont know them and what about med school? Can i become a medical officer after i get my bio degree and THEN get a scholorship to med school with a program?

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    There are several Air Force enlisted commissioning programs. Airman Scholarship and Commissioning Program: separate from active duty, $15,000/yr scholarship, $900/yr for books, $500/mth stipend while in AFROTC for up to 4 years. Airman Education and Commissioning Program: If you're willing to major in nursing or say bioengineering (other majors include certain foreign language/area-studies, meteorology, physics, math, and most engineering), you can stay on active duty while going to college full time with a $15,000/yr scholarship and $600/yr books for up to three years. USAFA-Prep: Get in here for a year, and then apply to USAFA Scholarships for Outstanding Airmen to ROTC: only 54 offered per year. Basically ASCP allowances and scholarship for various technical and non-technical majors (engineering, meteorology, architecture, nursing, pre-health and foreign language areas). Leaders Encouraging Airman Development Program: Your commander finds you worthy of USAFA or AFROTC Scholarship appointments Professional Officer Course - Early Release Program: two year program for early release from active duty, to enter ROTC. No scholarship, but use MGIB, $900/yr books, $500/mth stipend. I know of no direct enlisted-to-doctor program, but once you're separated from active duty, if you're in USAFA or AFROTC, you can apply for the medical scholarships. Or, forget about the above programs, and if you have an approved separation date, look at the medical scholarships directly. I honestly don't know what's required for them. I'm not sure how it would work if you commissioned before med school, either. I'd be inclined to say it's at least messier if not actually more difficult that way, unless it was actually in your contract or someone in your course of professional development.

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You have to earn your way to med school. IE: you apply to med school like every other pre med student, whether you get accepted will be based on your college GPA and MCAT score. The military cannot get you into med school. There is the AECP airmen enlisted commissioning program. You will need a couple years of college, a great gpa and be recommended by your Squadron commander. It is very hard to be accepted for the program. But if you went aecp and were accepted into a US Med School, after you graduated with a BS degree. The Air Force would work something out, to pay for your med school in return for about 8 years of service as a Air Force doctor. But be truthful, if you made the grades necessary to get earn a BS degree and get accepted med school, while you were in high school, you would have been offered a scholarship out of high school. So just why do you think your academic performance will be that much better now ? You will need around a 3.8 GPA or better in college to be accepted in a med school.

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