The Navy Active Duty Delay for Specialist Program (NADDS)

The NADDS program allows graduated medical students or medical officers the option to defer the fulfillment of their active duty obligation for medical school in order to receive graduate residency education in a critical shortage specialty in the civilian sector. While in the NADDS program, medical officers are in the Individual Ready Reserve (IRR) and receive no benefits. A NADDS resident receives pay and compensation from the civilian educational facility, not the Navy. Upon completion of the authorized residency training, or upon voluntary or involuntary termination, the officer is recalled to active duty to complete the deferred period of active duty obligation or for 2 years, whichever is longer.

A student who agrees to go into the NADDS program MUST supersede in rank to the appropriate rank. This is done by signing a new oath of office designating the officer as a 2105, i.e. USNR Medical Officer. At the time of graduation from medical/osteopathic school, the student WILL NOT receive orders. The Navy does not pay a NADDS participant to move to a new location for residency training.

NADDS participants are NOT ELIGIBLE FOR:

NADDS participants are ELIGIBLE FOR: