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 2009 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 year may also require applicants
to undergo a separate national background check process.
Participating Medical Schools
For the 2009 entering class, the following medical schools are
participating:
- University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Medicine
- University of California Los Angeles David Geffen SOM
- University of California Irvine College of Medicine
- University of California San Diego School of Medicine
- University of Colorado School of Medicine
- University of Connecticut School of Medicine
- Georgetown University School of Medicine
- Howard University College of Medicine
- University of South Florida College of Medicine
- University of Central Florida COM
- Florida International University COM
- University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine
- University of Illinois College of Medicine
- University of Kentucky College of Medicine
- Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New Orleans
- Tulane University School of Medicine
- Louisiana State University School of Medicine in Shreveport
- Boston University School of Medicine
- University of Michigan Medical School
- Wayne State University SOM
- University of Mississippi School of Medicine
- University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-New Jersey
Medical School
- University of New Mexico School of Medicine
- University at Buffalo State University of New York School of
Medicine & Biomedical Sciences
- University of Rochester School Medicine and Dentistry
- University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
- Ohio State University College of Medicine
- Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
- The University of Toledo College of Medicine
- Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine
- Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
- Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University
- Temple University School of Medicine
- Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine
- Universidad Central del Caribe School of Medicine
- Sanford School of Medicine of the University of South Dakota
- Meharry Medical College
- University of Utah School of Medicine
- University of Virginia School of Medicine
- University of Vermont College of Medicine
- Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
- Morehouse School of Medicine
- Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
- Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine
& Science
- University of Pennsylvania 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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