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For anyone of my fellow Navy Docs out there in GMO land, if you haven't already encountered issues with getting back into GME, make sure to have a back up plan as you apply next cycle. If you still have remaining active duty obligation, include civilian deferment when you apply and if you are at the end of your obligation you can even consider being ready to separate. Either way, be engaged with the civilian application program.

For anyone not aware, they are pushing more interns straight through with the goal of ending the pgy1-to-GMO pathway and instead having everyone go all the way through residency. Unfortunately, that means fewer slots for returning GMOs and I assume it is only going to get worse.

Unfortunately, I didn't find any of this out until after I didn't get picked up when I thought I would be a shoe in after two GMO tours including being stationed overseas with multiple deployments. I didn't think I'd need to go civilian, so I hadn't applied or looked for anything outside the navy and now I'm trying to separate last minute and scrambling to find a residency seat (I was deployed during the match and scramble).