Welcome
There are many factors that are part of choosing a medical school. Perhaps the most challenging aspect about is making a commitment is the unknown. The Uniformed Services University Office of Recruitment and Diversity and Office of External Affairs has assembled information to provide you with facts and resources that could be useful in helping you decide where you may want to pursue your medical education and where you may want to practice.
Top Ten Reasons to Come to USU
by ENS John Burger & ENS Brandon Tillman- Class of 2009- 10. No Military experience necessary
- 9. Learn unique skills empowering you to perform humanitarian aid worldwide provided by the United States
- 8. Provides support & care for your dependents
- 7. Cooperate with your classmates rather than compete with them
- 6. A wide variety of career opportunities after medical school
- 5. Have the chance to travel the country through military rotations
- 4. A tuition free education
- 3. Top training in specialties ranging from Ob/Gyn to Tropical Medicine
- 2. Receive a salary as a medical student (>$45,000/yr)
- 1. Provide care for those who risk their lives to protect your freedom
Mission: Learning to Care for Those in Harm's Way
The Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences is the Nation's federal health sciences university and is committed to excellence in military medicine and public health during peace and war. We provide the Nation with health professionals dedicated to career service in the Department of Defense and the United States Public Health Service and with scientists who serve the common good. We serve the uniformed services and the Nation as an outstanding academic health sciences center with a worldwide perspective for education, research, service, and consultation; we are unique in relating these activities to military medicine, disaster medicine, and military medical readiness.
Vision
We are the Nation's federal health sciences university, recognized as an outstanding scholarly educational center. Our component schools and institutes are dedicated to excellence and innovation in education, research, and service worldwide.
We are a university that grants degrees in the health sciences at all levels, producing outstanding scientists and health care practitioners for the Nation.
We are recognized as the preeminent center for the study of military medicine, tropical diseases, disaster medicine, and adaptation to extreme environments.
We are a major coordinating center for consultation, support, and advocacy education and operational readiness training in the health sciences, throughout the careers of uniformed medical personnel.
We have a cooperative, mutually supportive and valued interaction with DoD hospitals that enhances undergraduate education, graduate medical education, research programs and patient care.
We have a partnership with the Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine that enriches our scholarship and contributes to our fiscal stability and maximum development.
We attract a diverse population of qualified individuals and encourage their personal and professional development. Our students, faculty, and staff appreciate that they are essential to the work and success of each other and the University.
We are exemplary in providing access and opportunity for career development to people traditionally under-represented in medicine, science, academic and government service.
We prepare and inspire our students, faculty, and staff for a lifetime of learning, leadership, and service.
Our programs, scholarly activities, faculty, and graduates make outstanding contributions throughout the medical and scientific communities.
To provide the Nation with medical officers and scientists of character who serve the common good.
Resources
Admissions Information
Student Groups
- Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA)
- American Medical Student Association (AMSA)
- Asian Pacific American Medical Students Association (APAMSA)
- Catholic Medical Student Association (CMSA)
- Christian Medical Association (CMA)
- Family Medicine Interest Group (FMIG)
- Graduate Student Association (GSA)
- Graduate Student Council
- Internal Medicine Interest Group
- Latino Medical Student Association (LMSA)
- Medical Student Research Interest Group
- MD/PhD Student Association
- Preventive Medicine Interest Group (PMIG
- Sports Medicine Interest Group (SMIG)
- Student National Medical Association (SNMA)
- Student Spouses Club (SSC)
- Surgery Interest Group (SIG)