When would I join the military?

If you have high grades, you can apply for an rotc scholarship or even West Point. Your education would be paid for for undergrad. The military will cover medical school if you are accepted into a medical school. You would defer your service time until you graduate from med school. While in med school you are paid as an O-1 (2lt). You have minimal military training while in medical school. After you graduate med school and pass your boards, you would be required to serve around 6 years as a doctor plus two years in the reserves or as a member of the inactive ready reserve. Now the problem is that the military can choose your residency. Your residency is the training you get after med school in a hospital. The military assigns the residencies based on the needs of the military. This means that you could be assigned to trauma if that is what they need. They do have pediatricians on bases but the stateside ones are primarily civilians who work for the military. However, when you get out of the military, you could always apply for another residency. The only problem is that residents get paid much lower than full fledge doctors. But think of it this way, you will not have any loans and when you enter as a doctor, you are typically a Captain and would easily make major in a short time afterwards. By the way, there is also the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. It is free to attend if you are accepted. You do incur a military obligation. http://www.usuhs.mil/

You'd have to sign a contract with the military. 3-5 years dude. That's how they pay for your education.

Otherwise they'd be throwing away money For people who haven't even served. It's a gift, for the current Servers. So yea. Don't be cheap bra..

Collage is a good start and poop