<p>I can help with the obligation after. If you go through the academy, you are required five years of active service no matter where you go. If you go to medical school, you’re going to get an AF Health Professions Scholarship Program (HPSP). Through this, you get four more years. So you’re looking at nine by the time you’re an intern. If you go into a long residency* it could be more, but that’s where things get hazy.</p>
<p>*Certain issues can come up with residency selection when you go with HPSP. The needs of the AF (or other brach) will come before what ‘some’ doctors want. But, its just part of the risk you take when you sign your name on the schlorship line.</p>
<p>My advice, read this:</p>
<p>[Health</a> Professions Scholarship Program (HPSP)](<a href=“http://lukeballard.tripod.com/HPSP.html]Health”>Health Professions Scholarship Program (HPSP))</p>
<p>Capt. Ballard didn’t go to the academy and it’s a bit out of date, but it gives a good “post-undergraduate” look at AF medicine…you’re going to have to wait for Hornet for the actual workings within the academy to get a medicine slot…can’t help you there. (I do want to see the answer though.)</p>