Post Acceptance Drug Test

[Not A Troll]

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So a week or so ago my family went to Colorado, and while there we smoked quite a bit of legal cannabis. I just got accepted to med school and obviously they're going to drug test me at some point before matriculation. I was just wondering if you have to take the drug test upon accepting the offer or upon matriculation. The last thing I want is to mess up my med school dreams by failing a drug test. Thanks!

 

[Doctor Strange]

No

 

[Catalystik]

It seems unlikely you'd be tested before you show up on the school's premises, due to the expense and the ever-shifting acceptee decision-making about which school to attend.

That said, I've read that the hair test for drugs can be positive for three months.

 

[medic86]

It seems unlikely you'd be tested before you show up on the school's premises, due to the expense and the ever-shifting acceptee decision-making about which school to attend.

That said, I've read that the hair test for drugs can be positive for three months.

http://www.nature.com/articles/srep14906

 

[Not A Troll]

It seems unlikely you'd be tested before you show up on the school's premises, due to the expense and the ever-shifting acceptee decision-making about which school to attend.

That said, I've read that the hair test for drugs can be positive for three months.

A Hair test?!?! They use those?

 

[GiveMeThatMD]

A Hair test?!?! They use those?

What kind of drugs will you be testing?

 

[Planes2Doc]

Are you sure they will drug test you? It's school dependent. I'm a third year on my fifth rotation and haven't been tested...

 

[NotASerialKiller]

US med schools drug test their students? Yet another reason to stay in Canada

 

[Catalystik]

http://www.nature.com/articles/srep14906

Too bad the study population wasn't larger.

 

[Planes2Doc]

US med schools drug test their students? Yet another reason to stay in Canada

I think it's more of an exception than the norm. If the school doesn't, then it becomes dependent on rotation sites.

 

[hopefulERdoc251]

If it's through Certiphi, you get a background AND drug screen done. Those are due by the time the first deposit check is due (I was accepted at a DO school in September, their deposit date is November 15th so I need to finish all that before then).

 

[kmp0410]

Look at your school. I've never known anyone to be drug tested. Atleast not before you start on rotations,

 

[Law2Doc]

Rare to test in med school ( a few places do), but not at all rare to be tested for residency and beyond. If you want to be a doctor get this kind of stuff out of your life ASAP and forever. Consider it your first sacrifice in becoming a doctor. There can be no more "it was legal where I happened to be" -- that excuse doesn't fly with employers.

 

[jb94mg]

Rare to test in med school ( a few places do), but not at all rare to be tested for residency and beyond. If you want to be a doctor get this kind of stuff out of your life ASAP and forever. Consider it your first sacrifice in becoming a doctor. There can be no more "it was legal where I happened to be" -- that excuse doesn't fly with employers.

So we need to stay natty?

 

[Turkishking]

Wow, I must be screwed then.

 

[WingedOx]

US med schools drug test their students? Yet another reason to stay in Canada

My "school" didn't, but in order to rotate at one of the affiliate hospitals, we needed to be tested (at 75 bucks a pop) before the rotation.