Disclosing IAs in Residency Applications?

[Meli001]

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Hi everyone, I am an older and non-traditional student from the US. I am planning to apply to medical school. I admit that I have 2 IAs regarding academic integrity. The first one was about 15 years ago in undergrad…I used unsolicited notes on an exam. I am deeply ashamed of this and learned my lesson. The second one was about 4 years ago in grad school where I shared an assignment with a classmate that I had already turned in…thinking that he would use it as an example because I had done well. My classmate then copy and pasted my assignment and turned it in as his own! I also learned to never share my work with anyone. I have definitely learned the hard way.These infractions are not listed on my transcripts. I did graduate from both undergrad and grad school.

Should I apply to medical school, I would disclose these infractions. If I even get into medical school, graduate with integrity…would the ERAS application ask me to discuss about undergrad or grad school IA infractions? Should I not even try applying…? I would appreciate your insights! Thank you in advance!

 

[GoSpursGo]

Moving to pre-med

Multiple IAs, across 10+ years, is a troubling pattern that draws into question the validity of everything that happened in the intervening years. The second incident is just as bad as the first—you present it as if the problem is that your friend was foolish enough to copy/paste and so you got caught, but the real problem is that you have a pattern of being unconcerned about people getting unauthorized assistance. It doesn’t matter if you’re getting help for yourself or helping someone else.

To answer your question, if you can get into med school I don’t think this will come up on residency applications. Whether it’s worth applying to med school is likely a function of how strong your application is, and if you can demonstrate somehow that you’ve grown from the second incident in ways you clearly didn’t from the first

 

[Pile O' Nephritis]

FYI

https://students-residents.aamc.org/media/11616/download

"You may answer no if the action was deleted, expunged, or otherwise removed from your record by the institution." (p. 20)

Not saying this is your situation, but it would be good news considering your IAs likely won't come up on residency apps. Individual schools may ask you to disclose differently in their secondaries.

Often people are able to get away with not disclosing at all if it doesn't show up on your transcript. This is frowned upon though and will get you blacklisted if it ever comes up. I cannot recommend that.

 

[mistafab]

Your main 'gate' is med school. Residency won't care unless you have professionalism problems in med school, or legal problems that would prevent you from getting licensed in their state.