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Garrison health facilities · 1st/2nd/3rd Health Battalion · Fleet Base East & West · HMAS Cerberus · RAAF Amberley / Williamtown / Edinburgh health centres
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117 substantive mentions from 68 authors, 2022–2026, hand-read by theme. Community view, not policy; stance splits only at n ≥ 30; a claim under three authors is a single report, not a verdict. Retrieved 12 Sept 2026.
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You could be an ADF Reservist Medical Officer - tax free per day pay and NSW Health then have to give you paid 4 weeks of Military leave per year, allowing you to "double-dip" for 4weeks each yr.
This also comes with the lower income that ADF health careers pay, while they may be competitive, in the areas you’ll be serving a civvie GP will be getting paid a lot more since they’re rural.
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Hi all, I am currently in the ADF and have been offered a place on the Graduate Medical Scheme which is great because I'll keep my salary and benefits; however, I will have to give back 5 years after PGY2 and most likely can only pursue the GP/Rural Generalist pathway.
More often than not, army doctors are officers who started in another stream, did their time, and then applied to do ADF funded medicine.
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Money and HECS aside, I really want to highlight that when you're a commissioned officer within the ADF (regardless of your stream, rate etc), orders are exactly that.
Even once you fellow as a surgeon/ICU/ED etc you work in a public hospital to maintain skills and only occasionally do ADF time
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I have a 5 year ADF ROSO ahead of me however, due to a combination of lifestyle and long term earning potential factors, I am considering buying this out to pursue a career in crit care, ideally anaesthetics.
I've seen ADF GPs and GP trainees in ED who get an occasional week of hospital exposure.
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My anecdotal advice is; do the ADF scheme if you’re happy to be a GP or rural generalist, but it’s not a good option if you’re wanting to keep your options open.
The base rates for ADF aren’t bad but aren’t amazing, but also only a part of the take home pay as there’s a lot of extras for training, away from home allowance, accomodation supports, and all sorts of things when deployed.
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But the adf has its own culture rules and community.
You could be an ADF Reservist Medical Officer - tax free per day pay and NSW Health then have to give you paid 4 weeks of Military leave per year, allowing you to "double-dip" for 4weeks each yr.
Money and HECS aside, I really want to highlight that when you're a commissioned officer within the ADF (regardless of your stream, rate etc), orders are exactly that.
Even once you fellow as a surgeon/ICU/ED etc you work in a public hospital to maintain skills and only occasionally do ADF time
This also comes with the lower income that ADF health careers pay, while they may be competitive, in the areas you’ll be serving a civvie GP will be getting paid a lot more since they’re rural.
My anecdotal advice is; do the ADF scheme if you’re happy to be a GP or rural generalist, but it’s not a good option if you’re wanting to keep your options open.
Hi all, I am currently in the ADF and have been offered a place on the Graduate Medical Scheme which is great because I'll keep my salary and benefits; however, I will have to give back 5 years after PGY2 and most likely can only pursue the GP/Rural Generalist pathway.
More often than not, army doctors are officers who started in another stream, did their time, and then applied to do ADF funded medicine.
The base rates for ADF aren’t bad but aren’t amazing, but also only a part of the take home pay as there’s a lot of extras for training, away from home allowance, accomodation supports, and all sorts of things when deployed.
But the adf has its own culture rules and community.
I have a 5 year ADF ROSO ahead of me however, due to a combination of lifestyle and long term earning potential factors, I am considering buying this out to pursue a career in crit care, ideally anaesthetics.
I've seen ADF GPs and GP trainees in ED who get an occasional week of hospital exposure.
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