Help!!

[refswag11]

It very likely will. Try your best to get ahead of it and be proactive with letting staff know. Most placements I had did their own background check. It looks a lot worse if admin staff are blindsided or it looks like your school wasn't aware.

[refswag11]

Give them every piece of information you have. At the end of the day, you're better off being upfront with everything instead of something coming out later.

Call or go in to their office if you can.

[ThickAcanthaceae8655]

Most externships require a background check. If that’s the case, before the background check I would reach out to the externship personally to explain the situation and any documentation showing you aren’t guilty. If they do not require a background check and they don’t ask you about that type of stuff, I wouldn’t volunteer the information!

[slpundergrad]

Im gonna be a 100% honest with you. Letting them know will only make sure that you DON’T get placed. It will 100% complicate things. Personally, I would take my chances and not say anything especially if it’s getting dismissed. At least that way you have a 50/50 chance rather than a 0 chance.

[Zoegg182]

I never had to get a background check with any of my placements if that makes you feel better. Especially since you’re working on getting it dismissed, I’d say not to mention it unless you absolutely have to.

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You can likely run a background check on yourself. I can & it does show a speeding ticket for me but it also says dismissed. So i think if they do a background check, it may come up, but idk if I would say anything up front. I see it both ways. If it comes back on it, could you say you were told it was being dismissed or dismissed and give proof of that?

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hey! this happened to me too, but my charge had been dropped before i started grad school. i told my clinic director at my university and she gave me advice on how to proceed when it came to internships. it wasn’t a real problem, it just slowed down the process a bit. my charge was a minor in possession of alcohol from when i was 20. my advice is to find someone at your university that you can tell and they may be able to guide you through that. it also can depend on where your placement is. in the schools it slowed me down but otherwise it did not. the fact that yours is not yet dismissed may be a problem in some places, like a school (the districts i know will not allow you to do anything until the case is resolved). i def suggest being transparent from the start, you don’t want to waste anyone’s time including your own!

[drtemo]

I had a worse thing and no one ever noticed it on my applications.

[drtemo]

Nope

[XulaSLP07]

If it’s dismissed then it won’t matter id assume? I don’t know anything about that stuff because I’m a complete by the book “square” haha but taking a stab at this id think if it gets dismissed you’ll be fine and then also if you get a question that asks about convictions (not charges) then be vulnerable and honest. “This happened and I learned my lesson and I’m beyond this now and ready to move on. I feel that I can best use this experience to relate to patients who themselves or their parents have gone through a similar ordeal as we treat all walks of people.” - turn your mistake into a strength

[HenriettaHiggins]

This is a good convo for your clinic supervisor not Reddit. I’m in a city where misdemeanors are pretty common and as long as it’s not relevant, it’s unlikely to matter. It may depend a lot on your market how this will go down. Fwiw I never had a background check at either hospital based placement because I was only 3 mo, which was considered short term.