About the AAMC-Facilitated Background
Check Service
The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) recommends
that all US medical schools procure a national background check
on applicants upon their initial, conditional acceptance to medical
school. The rationale for performing criminal background checks
on accepted medical school applicants is based on a number of issues,
including
- the need to enhance the safety and well-being of patients
and, in so doing, to bolster the public's continuing trust in
the medical profession, and
- to ascertain the ability of accepted applicants to eventually
become licensed physicians.
In support of this recommendation, the AAMC has initiated an AMCAS-facilitated
national background check service, through which Certiphi Screening,
Inc. (a Vertical Screen® Company) will procure a national background
report on applicants at the point of acceptance. In addition, beginning
in May of each year, a national background report will be procured
for a subset of applicants who are on a participating school's alternate
list; medical schools will not receive such reports until the point
of acceptance. The AAMC has initiated this new service in order
to recognize the desire of medical schools to procure appropriate
national criminal history reports, and to prevent applicants from
paying additional fees at each medical school to which they are
accepted.
During the AMCAS 2008 application year, as we determine the viability
of this new service, participating medical schools may continue
to require applicants to undergo a separate national background
check process, if required to do so by their own institutional regulations
or by applicable state law. Many medical schools not participating
in our new service during this first year may also require applicants
to undergo a separate national background check process.
Participating Medical Schools
For the 2008 entering class, the following medical schools have
agreed to participate in order to assist the AAMC with this new
endeavor:
- Northwestern University - The Feinberg School of Medicine
- University of Mississippi School of Medicine
- University of Vermont College of Medicine
- UMDNJ - New Jersey Medical School
- The University of Toledo College of Medicine
- Morehouse School of Medicine
- University of California Los Angeles David Geffen SOM
- University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
- University of Colorado School of Medicine
- Boston University School of Medicine
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Background
Check Details
Upon your initial, conditional acceptance by a participating
medical school, or upon request by a participating medical
school that adds you to its alternate list, Certiphi
Screening, Inc. will send an e-mail to the preferred e-mail
address you entered in your AMCAS application.
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