Irregular behavior Charge By USMLE

You have made a big mistake in not taking this seriously right from the start, and not being pro-active. Sadly, burying your head in the sand has not made it go away. Even if you get to take your exams, this institutional action will now have job and licensing implications throughout your career. I hope anyone reading this who gets even a whisper of institutional action against them will learn lessons from it, and from all the other cases of institutional action posted on this board - you need to act as quickly as possible, and as strongly as possible, to have the matter resolved as much in your favour as you can manage.

Yes to deleting your earlier posts. If they found you on one on-line forum, they can find you on another. Do you really think no-one in NBME reads these boards? (As anything you say here may already have been taken down for use against you, so include a copy of this thread in the documentation for your lawyer/advisers, so you can work out appropriate answers to any questions that might be raised by what you have said here.)

I suspect you don't have much to lose at this stage by asking to see your PD and laying the whole matter in front of them. If you do have doubts about your PD's potential reaction, do you have a residency adviser/union rep who would understand the situation and know the PD, and be able to help you with talking to the PD?

I do think you should think about having a lawyer who is familiar with professional licensing issues to help. Make sure that any such lawyer is approaching things in a way which is most likely to get you the outcome you want.

I would suggest that, there is any way to do so, you/your lawyer might first try to get the initial decision re-opened for a new "first decision". It is usually easier to get a good outcome by arguing the whole case first time around rather than just appealing an adverse decision. Possible grounds for this would be that you waived your right to a hearing without advice and in a situation where you should not have done. Even if you do not have a legal right to have the initial hearing re-held, it is possible that you would still be given a re-hearing if the NBME are persuaded that this is the best way to deal with the problem they have with you.

Regarding the punishment, how does being banned for a certain period interact with the requirement to take the steps within a certain period? If you do accept/get given this punishment, you will need to be certain before hand of how a revised timeline would work.

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Irregular behavior Charge By USMLE