Health Professions Scholarship Program
What is the Health Professions Scholarship Program (HPSP)?
The Navy’s HPSP is a full-ride scholarship for medical students — designed to let you focus on becoming a physician without the weight of student debt.
Program Benefits:
- 100% tuition and essential supplies covered
- $2,870 monthly stipend for living expenses
- $20,000 signing bonus
- 97% match rate to first or second-choice specialty (2023)
- Access to premier training, mentorship, and real-world experience
- Post-residency specialty billets in a wide range of fields, including:
Critical Wartime Specialties:
- General Surgery
- Emergency Medicine
- Orthopedic Surgery
- Anesthesiology
- Trauma Surgery
- Critical Care Medicine
- Psychiatry
- Internal Medicine (with subspecialties)
- Family Medicine
- Preventive Medicine
- Infectious Disease
- Pulmonary Medicine
Non-Critical Wartime Specialties:
- Cardiology
- Oncology
- Neurosurgery
- Ophthalmology
- Urology
- Radiology
- Aerospace Medicine
- Otolaryngology (ENT)
- Dermatology
- Pathology
- Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
Why Choose Navy Medicine?
- Financial freedom to focus on your training
- A guaranteed path to practice your specialty
- Opportunities to serve in unique, high-impact roles
- A career defined by purpose, leadership, and clinical excellence
Service Obligation:
· Minimum obligation is four years