Cheating at medical school

British Medical Journal, Feb 3, 2001

Wholesale cheating has caused abandonment of a medical students' examination in London. The students, 150 of them, were taking a physiology paper set by the Conjoint Board. That cheating was going on was discovered truly 15 minutes from the end of the examination. The supervising examiner grew suspicious when 20 students, one after another, asked permission to go to the cloakroom. Mr Horace New, secretary of the Conjoint Board, was asked to investigate. Behind a pipe in the cloakroom he found a "cram" book.

Might cheating at medical school remain endemic unless it is tackled openly?

Sharon Davies letters editor, BMJ

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