If your school is not accepted, then you MUST have board cert AND they may still evaluate your school. this is what happened in Dr. Johnson's case, to my understanding.

It is an unfortunate incident, but serves a valuable lesson to those of us still in school. Make sure you keep meticulous records of all your training. In fact I may keep a notebook of seminars and daily/weekly conferences along with times, topics, and presenters. Then I can show proper documentation down to the micro level if they want it. Also, make sure to cross all your Ts and dot all your Is before you submit an application. Sounds like they didn't find fault so much with AUC as with Johnson's lack of preparation in showing all they wanted to see. I suppose if she had gotten documentation of how AUC monitors clinical sites and the academic program (from MEIO I assume) then they may have let her in. Also she was an extreme case, having started at a US school, failed out or was removed for disciplinary reasons, couldn't get re-admitted, and then went 'offshore' for her clinical enrollment (even though it was done in the US).... bad case. Just remember, they can go as in-depth inot your past as they want, and if they want to deny you, they will find a reason.

However, I would STRONGLY URGE that we as a school and students press AUC to present information to the Colorado board to prove we are at this time sufficiently organized and upstanding as an educational institution to merit approval by the State of Colorado. If we sit and do nothing, more and more states will toughen their laws (trends are looking like this) and we will lose more and more states.

Keep good records, everyone.