Contact Information for the MSC-IPP Program

Navy Medicine Professional Development Center
Medical Service Corps In-service Procurement Program
8901 Wisconsin Ave, Bldg 1, T-16
Bethesda, Maryland 20889-5611
Comm: (301) 319-4520 DSN: 285-4520
Email: MSCIPP@med.navy.mil

Medical Service Corps

In-service Procurement Program (IPP)

MSC IPP provides a pathway to an officer commission for career motivated active duty enlisted personnel, in pay grades E-5 through E-9, who meet the eligibility criteria defined in the in the OPNAVINST 1420.1B.  MSC IPP offers a wide range of undergraduate and graduate training opportunities in a variety of Medical Service Corps specialties leading to a commission in the Medical Service Corps. Opportunities are available for the following specialties: Health Care Administration (HCA), Physician Assistant (PA), Environmental Health (EHO), Radiation Health (RHO), Industrial Hygiene (IHO), Pharmacy, Occupational Therapy, and Social Work.  Duty under Instruction (DUINS) permits members to attend fully funded training to complete a qualifying degree with no break in service. 

Sailors remain on active duty, receive full pay, and allowance at their current enlisted pay grade and take the advancement exam to advance in rank while in the program.

MSC IPP commissioning is a permanent appointment.  Commissioned officer must serve TEN YEARS active commissioned service per Title 10 U.S. Code 6323 to be eligible to retire as an officer.

This page is designed as an information source, to assist you in the preparation of your application.

IMPORTANT DUE DATES:
PA Official Transcripts Due - 15 June 2012

Applications Postmarked - 17 August 2012

Addendums DUE - 14 September 2012

Board Convenes - 9 October 2012  

 FY 13 MSC IPP Board Members and Selection Goals

News Article:
Navy Medicine Support Command 1 April 2011
Navy PA training ranked among nation’s best
FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas – The Interservice Physician Assistant Program (IPAP) training program in San Antonio where Navy PAs train will be listed April 5 by U.S. News & World Report as the 13th best PA program among more than 140 PA graduate schools in the nation. A story in the 2012 special edition of U.S. News & World Report’s Best Graduate Schools will appear on newsstands, announcing that IPAP based at Fort Sam Houston was chosen in a 3-way tie with Northeastern University in Boston and Stony Brook University – SUNY in Stony Brook.  … “I am very proud of our PA training program,” said Rear Adm. Eleanor Valentin, Navy Medicine Support Command commander and the Navy’s Medical Service Corps director, which includes PAs.  “Our physician assistants are charged with the care of our most important resources in the Navy and Marine Corps – our people.  So, it is essential that we provide the best training possible.  Our joint training program at Fort Sam Houston accomplishes this in part by combining the best of the military services.” The quad-service IPAP is taught by Navy, Army, Air Force and Coast Guard instructors, and is comprised of students from those services and the Marine Corps.  … The selection was based on peer assessment surveys within the PA discipline and can be viewed now at http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-health-schools/physician-assistant-rankings.