Doctor plagiarised article to get into surgical training
He also forged results of a Royal Australasian College of Surgeons exam to get in, tribunal finds
14th October 2019
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