A doctor who got into a surgical training program on the back of a plagiarised article and forged exam results has been found guilty of professional misconduct.

The Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal reprimanded the doctor, fined him $10,000 and made his registration subject to education on academic integrity and research ethics.

The doctor’s article, which appeared in Annals of Medicine & Surgery in May 2017, was used on his curriculum vitae to gain entry into the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons’ general surgery training program, according to the tribunal.

But his article on super-selective mesenteric embolisation as a first-line treatment for acute lower-gastrointestinal bleeding had been plagiarised from an earlier article written by colleagues at Western Health.