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You dun f**ked up. It's a range of possibilities from losing clerkship professionalism points to an asterisk in your Dean's letter. Administration is unlikely to be sympathetic and will make the slippery slope argument of "something something affect patient care." Really the only thing you can do is go through the whole ceremonial self-flagellation in front of your coo-ordinator and/or administration and pray for mercy.
 
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Expulsion for forgery isn't unheard of. You can hope that administration doesn't go that far for you, but you will most likely have a massive red flag on your record that will tarnish your residency application and your future prospects.
 
Yeah you probably should be expelled. Dishonesty is not well tolerated in the medical field.
 
I'll never understand why idiots cheat on dumb ****. Like cheat on step 1 or something don't forge a stupid form or cheat on a stupid first year anatomy test. You must have the most warped understanding of what a risk:benefit is.
 
SDN has such a warped sense of reality sometimes.. Fraudulating a non-graded evaluation does not seem egregious enough to dismiss a student with three years and 100k investment (even though I'm sure that it happens). The appeal to bureaucracy is strong here.
 
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SDN has such a warped sense of reality sometimes.. Fraudulating a non-graded evaluation does not seem egregious enough to dismiss a student with three years and 100k investment (even though I'm sure that it happens). The appeal to bureaucracy is strong here.
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Medicine in the U.S. is predicated on the trust that the public has in it. Because of the high standards we have for medical education, licensing, etc., the average person doesn't care where somebody got their training because they know that the system should only allow for high quality professionals.

This goes beyond clinical acumen, however. Look at news stories about doctors gone corrupt, performing unnecessary procedures and committing fraud. These aren't spontaneous behaviors - people who commit frivolous fraud are certainly more likely to commit serious fraud. If somebody failing step 1 (an exam generally considered to not test clinical knowledge very well at all) is a death knell for many, if not all, of their professing goals, then why shouldn't fraud?

Would you want your child being treated by somebody who committed minor fraud to get through medical school?

There are people who now believe that physicians are in cahoots with the pharmaceutical industry to withhold disease-treating therapies in order to provide a lifetime's worth of expensive medications. Let's not give them any reason to support their conspiracy theories by shrugging off indiscretions.
 
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