Self Background check?

[BR3@D]

In process of applying for medical license for fellowship next year. Would it be wise to run a self background check to verified the information are accurate? Especially with things like recent equifax breach incident...etc. What would be some good resource/websites to run a background check on yourself?

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[hamstergang]

Would it be wise to run a self background check to verified the information are accurate?

Probably a waste of time and money.

 

[Smurfette]

Reading this, my first thought was, that's odd, what did you do that has you worried about your criminal background check?

If you are currently a resident, you've previously had a background check (or several) to be able to work in the hospital and clearly nothing was of concern.

However, since you brought up Equifax, it's not a bad thing to check your credit reports periodically for your own protection; you get one free report a year from each major agency.

 

[Raryn]

In process of applying for medical license for fellowship next year. Would it be wise to run a self background check to verified the information are accurate? Especially with things like recent equifax breach incident...etc. What would be some good resource/websites to run a background check on yourself?

Feel free to run your credit reports. You can get all three at Annual Credit Report.com - Home Page

A credit monitoring system is also reasonable. CreditKarma is free and pretty on top of stuff, just ignore the advertisements (and understand their actual score isn't a FICO score so might not be super accurate).

A self-run criminal background check? Huh? Why?

 

[deleted109597]

Equifax doesn't cross over into criminal record.

 

[AdmiralChz]

In process of applying for medical license for fellowship next year. Would it be wise to run a self background check to verified the information are accurate? Especially with things like recent equifax breach incident...etc. What would be some good resource/websites to run a background check on yourself?

A background check and a credit report/monitoring service are VASTLY different things. Your credit score has no impact on your ability to get a state license.

More to the point - what are you worried about the fellowship/state board finding out about?