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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Bye, David (CMS/OPOLE) <david.bye@cms.hhs.gov> <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, June 13, 2023 5:14 PM<br>
<b>Subject:</b> EXTERNAL EMAIL: U.S. Public Health Service Opportunity - SRCOSTEP Application Opens June 1, 2023<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Good afternoon,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">My name is LT David Bye and I am pharmacist and an officer with the U.S. Public Health Service.</span>
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">I wanted to provide a friendly reminder that USPHS Commissioned Corps Junior (JR) and Senior (SR) Commissioned Officer Student Training Extern Program's (COSTEP) annual open application period
is opening soon.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">COSTEPs are highly competitive, active-duty uniformed service programs for full-time students pursuing their qualifying degrees. Please visit
</span><a href="https://www.usphs.gov/students/"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Officer & Student Training Programs</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> for further information on
COSTEP.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">JRCOSTEP<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Junior COSTEPs serve on active duty for 31-120 days during school breaks. Within three months after the date of completion of the JRCOSTEP assignment, applicants must be
scheduled to return to college or university as a full-time student; or enter a postgraduate degree program.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Application acceptance period
<a name="_Hlk135291385">is June 1 – July 31, 2023</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">JRCOSTEP applications will be accepted now for active-duty assignments the following year. Please refer applicants to the following resources before they apply:
</span><a href="https://dcp.psc.gov/ccmis/ccis/documents/CCI_371.02.pdf"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">JRCOSTEP policy</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">,</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt">
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><a href="https://dcp.psc.gov/ccmis/JrCoStepCCI371.02Faq.aspx"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">CCMIS JRCOSTEP FAQs</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">,</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
and </span><a href="https://www.usphs.gov/media/yunnlaiu/jrcostep-faqs.pdf"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">JRCOSTEP FAQs</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">SRCOSTEP<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Senior COSTEPs serve on active duty while attending their final year of academic study and incur a service obligation equal to twice the time sponsored upon graduation.
Please refer applicants to the following resources before they apply: </span><a href="https://dcp.psc.gov/ccmis/ccis/documents/CCI_371.03.pdf"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">SRCOSTEP policy</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">,
</span><a href="https://dcp.psc.gov/ccmis/SrCoStepCCI371.03Faq.aspx"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">CCMIS SRCOSTEP FAQs</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">,
</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">and
</span><a href="https://www.usphs.gov/media/daoj3qxv/srcostep-faqs.pdf"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">SRCOSTEP FAQs</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">SRCOSTEP applications will be accepted for students who are graduating in 2025 or early 2026 with a degree in the following disciplines:</span>
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">medicine, nursing, dentistry, pharmacy, psychology, veterinary medicine, environmental health, engineering, speech-language pathology, audiology, research science, or occupational, physical,
or respiratory therapy.. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Application acceptance period is June 1 – September 30, 2023.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">As of June 1, 2022, SRCOSTEP participants are also subject to the
</span><a href="https://dcp.psc.gov/ccmis/ccis/documents/POM_821.85.pdf"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Commissioned Service Obligation</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">upon graduation. Please review the
</span><a href="https://dcp.psc.gov/ccmis/CCD122_02Faq.aspx"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">CSO CCMIS FAQs</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Any additional questions regarding the current COSTEP open application period can be submitted to
</span><a href="mailto:PHSCostep@hhs.gov"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">PHSCostep@hhs.gov</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">I am also available to help answer questions as this is a program that I participated in prior to graduating in 2018. Our contact information may not be up to date with
your school, so please let me know if there is a different faculty member I can share this with. Please feel free to share with students of the eligible cohorts as well as with programs of eligible disciplines at your school.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Thanks so much!
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>David Bye, PharmD, BCGP</b><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Lieutenant | United States Public Health Service Officer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Health Insurance Specialist | Drug and Health Plan Operations | Office of Program Operations & Local Engagement | Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services |
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