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[Suffer]

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I was given a warning for being drunk on a VA property which I was unaware of. They said it would not appear in any background checks. Will this have any impact on future employment? I'm already in medical school

Thanks

 

[Justice1071]

I was given a warning for being drunk on a VA property which I was unaware of. They said it would not appear in any background checks. Will this have any impact on future employment? I'm already in medical school

Thanks

Warnings do not go into the "system" so no, unless you had to go to court or pay a fine, you are good to go.

 

[deleted480308]

I was given a warning for being drunk on a VA property which I was unaware of. They said it would not appear in any background checks. Will this have any impact on future employment? I'm already in medical school

Thanks

No you aren’t. In dec and February you were still asking the questions of an applicant

 

[RNtoMD87]

People make me scratch my head.

 

[Suffer]

Warnings do not go into the "system" so no, unless you had to go to court or pay a fine, you are good to go.

They said it could be found if like specifically looked for or something? But wouldn't show up in a background check? Couldn't find a lot of information on a legal "warning" online

No you aren’t. In dec and February you were still asking the questions of an applicant

My bad I will be attending this fall

 

[RNtoMD87]

They said it could be found if like specifically looked for or something? But wouldn't show up in a background check? Couldn't find a lot of information on a legal "warning" online



My bad I will be attending this fall

You forgot that you're not in med school yet?

 

[Suffer]

You forgot that you're not in med school yet?

Well the original statement "I am already in" as in "I already got in" not "I am currently in" but I'm not really here to argue semantics so..

 

[LizzyM]

Were you unaware that you were drunk or unaware that you were on VA property? or was it both? How drunk were you??

 

[Trollest]

Were you unaware that you were drunk or unaware that you were on VA property? or was it both? How drunk were you??

lol this comment somehow made me laugh

 

[doc05]

Time to grow up. Public intoxication will end your career.

 

[Suffer]

Were you unaware that you were drunk or unaware that you were on VA property? or was it both? How drunk were you??

There is a VA on my school's campus. I was walking back to my dorm through the campus and walked across the parking lot which is a common route to the dorms I was living in. I wasn't at a random VA in my city

Are we expected to report warnings to medical schools?

Time to grow up. Public intoxication will end your career.

Can I take the warning as just a learning moment or should I expect it to show up in future residency/job applications?

 

[Justice1071]

They said it could be found if like specifically looked for or something? But wouldn't show up in a background check? Couldn't find a lot of information on a legal "warning" online


As a former police officer, we could write warnings, but it was not anything that was recorded like a citation or arrest.
The people who wrote you the warning may could try to find it, if they caught you drunk on VA property again, but that would be hard unless the warning was entered and printed out using a computer.
If you had something hand written there's even less to worry about honestly, I think your good. That's the whole point of a "warning," to warn, not to charge.

 

[LizzyM]

Was this warning in writing? Were you fingerprinted? Did you have to appear before anyone later to answer for this warming or was this solely a verbal encounter with VA security?

 

[artist27]

Ok I'm still tryna figure out what a VA is??

 

[Suffer]

Was this warning in writing? Were you fingerprinted? Did you have to appear before anyone later to answer for this warming or was this solely a verbal encounter with VA security?

They wrote something out for me and they looked at my ID but I wasn't finger printed, handcuffed, taken in etc. I don't have to appear before anyone or go to court

I checked the AMCAS application and there doesn't appear to be a section on this, only convicted misdemeanors and felonies so I'd guess I wouldn't have to

A

Thanks for the info!

 

[Justice1071]

Ok I'm still tryna figure out what a VA is??

I'm assuming it's a veteran's hospital. It's federally regulated. At least that's what I've always heard them referred to as.

 

[CaptainWEMT]

Ok I'm still tryna figure out what a VA is??

VA is a veterans affairs hospital- they provide care to veterans who served in the US military.

 

[RNtoMD87]

The place we veterans go to have another chance to die for our country.