Upon your initial, conditional acceptance by a participating medical school and after Jan. 1 for all programs (except applicants accepted by an Early Decision Program, for whom a background check takes place at the point of acceptance), Certiphi Screening, will send an email to the preferred email address you entered in your AMCAS application. The email will give you access to a secure, online form in which you will provide basic identifying information and consent for a background report to be procured. Your consent will serve for all participating medical schools that offer you conditional acceptance.
Once you have provided consent, Certiphi Screening, will conduct a background check; once completed, Certiphi Screening will send an email to your preferred email address asking you to review the background check report before it's distributed. Once you have received the email, you will have 10 calendar days to contest the accuracy of the contents of the background check report. Once you have reviewed and released the report or after the specified 10-calendar-day period has elapsed, the background check report will be made available to the participating medical school(s) that made a conditional offer of acceptance.
Upon your initial, conditional acceptance to an additional participating medical school, the background check report will be made available to other participating medical schools who are offering a conditional acceptance after Jan. 1. The background check will not be released to any party other than the medical school(s) requesting it.
History in the background check report that may include infractions and juvenile records will be displayed to you, but medical schools’ policies vary regarding the content their reviewers can and will view.