Is Future of Medicine Safe in the Hands of Young Medical Practitioners? Perceptions of Medical Students Regarding Academic Misconduct

Objective: To assess the self-reported attitude and behavior of MBBS students towards academic misconduct and to identify the differences of responses. Study design: Analytical cross-sectional study. Place and Duration of study: Army Medical College, Rawalpindi Pakistan, from May to Sep 2022. Method...

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Published in:Pakistan Armed Forces medical journal 2022-11, Vol.72 (SUPPL-4), p.S719-24
Main Authors: Misbah, Samreen, Mashhadi, Syed Fawad, Zuberi, Fatima Ayaz, Ali, Elia, Fatima, Seerat, Haider, Khinshan, Saeed, Nasir, Riaz, Muhammad Umar
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Academic misconduct
Cheating
College students
Consent
Curricula
Ethical aspects
Ethics
Fraud
Malpractice
Medical personnel
Medical students
Morality
Plagiarism
Questionnaires
Student attitudes
Textbooks
Well being
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Summary:Objective: To assess the self-reported attitude and behavior of MBBS students towards academic misconduct and to identify the differences of responses. Study design: Analytical cross-sectional study. Place and Duration of study: Army Medical College, Rawalpindi Pakistan, from May to Sep 2022. Methodology: MBBS students from first to final year of both genders who consented to participate were included in the study while excluding unwilling students. Data were collected from 396 medical students by convenience sampling using avalidated questionnaire by the University of Dundee. After formal ethical approval responses were obtained on 14 scenarios.Data were analyzed by using IBM SPSS Statistics version 26. For descriptive statistics frequency and percentages wereidentified, and Pearson’s Chi-Square test was used to find out the differences in responses among all year (p
ISSN:0030-9648
2411-8842
DOI:10.51253/pafmj.v72iSUPPL-4.9645