Institutional Action - Disciplinary Record Request

[UnclePhil]

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Uncle Phil, to answer your question:

This student is not trying to get away with anything. Everything has and will be declared. However, my question is simply about the request for records, because those actually provide such vague information so as to, in my opinion, inaccurately describe such incidents. Thus this is a VERY important question. People always assume the worst.

Then my answer is still the same.

If they ask they will ask, if they don't they won't. We aren't every single medical school, they will have different policies. If you don't think that the records are accurate, tough ****. If the university has disciplinary records, then yes, it is an IA.

 

[isoquin]

Look, I didn't do anything wrong. I am asking for a friend of mine, I am not trying to get away with lying, I am trying to see if my friend needs to disclose the information or not. She doesn't know if its IA or not, so I'm trying to get some opinions.

You/friend needs to disclose. Up front. Chances are it's going to get out. If it's something legal, it will definitely come out at some point during med school when a criminal background check is mandatory to start peds or VA training. And to address the unmentioned fear you've been avoiding: yes, it is possible that you/friend has done something that would completely prevent you/him/her from attending medical school in the US. Ever. Not too many will look kindly on cheating or plagiarism, for example.

I'm all about providing solutions to help people get into med school.... except for that.

 

[LizzyM]

Uncle Phil, to answer your question:

This student is not trying to get away with anything. Everything has and will be declared. However, my question is simply about the request for records, because those actually provide such vague information so as to, in my opinion, inaccurately describe such incidents. Thus this is a VERY important question. People always assume the worst.

If the applicant's side of the story is provided on the AMCAS and does not contradict or downplay whatever is vaguely described in the official record, then the adcom is likely to accept the student's version of the story as accurate. If the student's version of the story is not accurate and downgrades the description of an event (involvement in an "exams for sale" ring becomes, "I gave an old exam to a friend, I didn't know that wasn't allowed." ) the consequences could be great.

 

[DrHouse579]

I got an IA for alcohol. By the time I apply to med school, I will be drinking alcohol legally, so will a good explanatory essay about a lapse in judgement be sufficient or do I have to waste my time giving talks about the dangers of alcohol and drugs?