AAMC Background Check Service
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 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.
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 early decision program applicants at the point of acceptance and all other applicants at the point of acceptance after January 1st. 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 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 2011 application year, 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 may also require applicants to undergo a separate national background check process.
Participating Medical Schools
For the 2011 entering class, the following medical schools will be participating:
(This list may change per the medical school's decision)
Albany Medical College Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University Baylor College of Medicine Boston University School of Medicine Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine Creighton University School of Medicine Dartmouth Medical School Drexel University College of Medicine East Tennessee State University James H. Quillen College of Medicine Emory University School of Medicine FIU Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences Georgetown University School of Medicine Howard University College of Medicine Indiana University School of Medicine Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New Orleans Louisiana State University School of Medicine in Shreveport Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine Mayo Clinic College of Medicine Mayo Medical School Medical College of Wisconsin Meharry Medical College School of Medicine Mercer University School of Medicine Michigan State University College of Human Medicine Morehouse School of Medicine New York Medical College New York University School of Medicine Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science Chicago Medical School Rush Medical College of Rush University Saint Louis University School of Medicine San Juan Bautista School of Medicine State University of New York Downstate Medical Center College of Medicine State University of New York Upstate Medical University College of Medicine Stony Brook University School of Medicine Temple University School of Medicine The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University The Commonwealth Medical College The Medical College of Georgia School of Medicine The Ohio State University College of Medicine The University of Miami School of Medicine The University of Toledo College of Medicine The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University Tufts University School of Medicine Tulane University School of Medicine Universidad Central del Caribe School of Medicine University at Buffalo School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences University of Alabama School of Medicine University of Arkansas College of Medicine University of California - Davis School of Medicine University of California - San Francisco School of Medicine University of California Irvine College of Medicine University of California Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA University of California San Diego School of Medicine University of Central Florida College of Medicine University of Chicago Division of the Biological Sciences The Pritzker School of Medicine University of Cincinnati College of Medicine University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine University of Connecticut School of Medicine University of Florida College of Medicine University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine University of Kentucky College of Medicine University of Louisville School of Medicine University of Massachusetts Medical School University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-New Jersey Medical School University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School University of Michigan Medical School University of Mississippi School of Medicine University of Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine University of New Mexico School of Medicine University of Oklahoma College of Medicine University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine University of Rochester School Medicine and Dentistry University of South Alabama College of Medicine University of South Carolina School of Medicine University of South Florida College of Medicine University of Utah School of Medicine University of Vermont College of Medicine University of Virginia School of Medicine University of Washington School of Medicine Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine Virginia Tech Carrilion School of Medicine Wake Forest University School of Medicine Washington University in Saint Louis School of Medicine Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine
Background Check Details
Certiphi Screening, Inc. will procure a background report on early decision program applicants at the point of acceptance and all other applicants at the point of acceptance after January 1st. An e-mail will be sent to applicants by Certiphi Screening Inc., at the preferred e-mail address entered in the AMCAS application by the applicant.
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