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Degrees in the RDF

  • 21-01-2008 5:57pm
    #1
    segaBOY
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,563 ✭✭✭


    Just wondering if you have say a degree in Medicine do you have to be in a Med Coy to be given a Officer rank or can you be in infantry etc.??


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  • #2
    Gunny Hartman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 66 ✭✭Gunny Hartman


    No you can be in what ever corps you chose and they won't just give you a commission.


  • #3
    segaBOY
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,563 ✭✭✭segaBOY


    Gunny Hartman wrote: »
    No you can be in what ever corps you chose and they won't just give you a commission.

    What knid of obsticles would you have to go through?


  • #4
    cushtac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,253 ✭✭✭cushtac


    Gunny Hartman wrote: »
    No you can be in what ever corps you chose and they won't just give you a commission.

    If you are serving with a medical unit and qualify as a doctor you are eligible for a technical commission, this has happened in the past.


  • #5
    Gunny Hartman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 66 ✭✭Gunny Hartman


    cushtac wrote: »
    If you are serving with a medical unit and qualify as a doctor you are eligible for a technical commission, this has happened in the past.

    Yes but just because you are eligible for a tech commission doesn't mean they will just give it to you but with something like medicine it's fairly sure, if you read the OP's post he was wondering if you have to be in a Med Coy, to be commissioned.


  • #6
    cushtac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,253 ✭✭✭cushtac


    Gunny Hartman wrote: »
    Yes but just because you are eligible for a tech commission doesn't mean they will just give it to you but with something like medicine it's fairly sure, if you read the OP's post he was wondering if you have to be in a Med Coy, to be commissioned.

    I've never known a doctor in a medical company not to hold a commission, and he was using the medical company as an example.


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  • #7
    Oilrig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 727 ✭✭✭Oilrig


    Fuzzy kind of question...

    First off, having a degree in medicine doesn't make you a "Doctor", much hard work to do after the degree before you get to practice. "Doctors" have to practice medicine to retain their registration AFAIK.

    Next up, why on earth would someone with a medical degree want to be in the Infantry - or any other non medical corps? it doesn't make sense. There's a whole can of worms there what with the Hippocratic Oath, Geneva Convention, etc etc.

    The same would apply to anyone with a technical (electronics etc) degree, if they spend time away from their area of expertise they start to lag behind.

    "If you are serving with a medical unit and qualify as a doctor you are eligible for a technical commission, this has happened in the past."

    In theory, there's a bit more to it than just turning up with the qualifications and being offered a commission, in practice they're probably so stuck you'd be a shoo in... :rolleyes:

    Some of the Docs I encountered while in were outstanding, some experts in their field, some of the others would have given Mengele a run for his money...:mad:


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