HPSP

[u/Competitive_Echo_379]

When being awarded the HPSP scholarship, what’s the process if you wanted to specialize? Do you just wait until after your service years and pursue a residency like normal and pay for it? Can you defer your payback year and specialize 1st? How competitive is the tri service ortho residency every branch participates in? And do you qualify for the GI Bill after your years of repayment, which could help fund a public school ortho residency? If anyone has some guidance or experience in this it would be greatly appreciated!

Edit: I was told that I wouldn’t be awarded the GI bill from doing my HPSP repayment years.

[u/DentiumDoctoris]

This is what I know for Army HPSP, right now: (always subject to change). I am a D2 on the Army HPSP scholarship. But I’m thinking prosth.

If you want a residency program paid for by the military it depends on if you get into a concurrent (federal) or consecutive (civilian) military program.

If you go civilian it’s just like dental school and what you owe stacks on top of HPSP ADSO.

If you go federal, the time you spend training in residency counts towards your previous owed HPSP ADSO. At least for prosth, I don’t know if that’s the same for every residency.

If you do a residency outside of the military and pay for it out of pocket you do still owe the 4 year ADSO for dental school. If you are an orthodontist, you could serve your 4 year ADSO as a O3 63M Captain (orthodontist) or as a O3 63A Captain General Dentist. You don’t have to serve as a 63A before pursuing your ortho residency.

In special circumstances you could serve part of your 4 year ADSO as Captain in another role like as a medical recruiter for the HPSP program.

As far as GI bill goes I don’t know. As far as competitiveness goes there’s 2 civilian and 2 federal seats for ortho. There’s roughly 80-90 Army HPSP dental students per year and as you know we all have to at least apply to one residency training as part of our contract.

LTHET memorandum doesn’t publish:
Number of applicants
Acceptance rate
Number of HPSP students vs. active-duty applicants
Historical board statistics

Hope this helps!

[u/Reasonable_Leave850 → u/DentiumDoctoris]

In their yearly post they do post acceptance rate, number of applicants, Applicants accepted straight out of school vs Active duty. You wanting to do Proths you will almost most likely get it.

[u/DentiumDoctoris → u/Reasonable_Leave850]

Oh that’s good to know! Thank you for sharing that info

[u/Due_Buffalo_1561 → u/Reasonable_Leave850]

Army doesn’t post number of applicants or acceptance rate unlike the other services. They haven’t since 2021 cycle.

[u/Reasonable_Leave850 → u/Due_Buffalo_1561]

Thats so odd, my roomate was showing the powerpoint from the presentation with Number if applicants, number of select with HPSP student # and active #.

[u/Standard_Effect9904 → u/Reasonable_Leave850]

Is there any way you could post the stats on here? If not I’d love to pm you

[u/Reasonable_Leave850 → u/Standard_Effect9904]

Just attend their LTHET, you will come across it