Residency attitude towards academic dishonesty

[Brownsugaa]

I am at risk of having a permanent academic dishonesty put on my transcript if the dean agrees with that sanction. I am a first year med student and I sent in my friends one page ungraded library assignment first semester and my honor council suggested that I receive a conditional grade for that clinically oriented class. In addition to the conditional grade on my transcript, it would say next to the grade that I received the grade as a result of academic dishonesty. I wanted to know if anyone knew how that would effect my chances of getting in to different residency programs (ie. whether they would discard my application immediately, or look at it and rank it lower due to the offense).

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[Bernoull]

There's someone here by the name of aProgDirector or something like that, i suggest getting u in touch with him/her..

I'm not sure i uf accept the charge of not, but if it's true u gotta be very very careful going forward. Dishonesty can get someone kicked out of med school, it's just no worth it... but no one's perfect, most ppl have cheated at something at some point. However for med sch, the risk/reward ratio simply makes cheating very foolish, risking ur entire future/career for a few extra points.. really, c'mon

Trust me i'm no do-gooder, I've had my fair share of "doings" over the years but for med school I just decided to make a clean break and walk the straight n narrow. Let this be a wakeup call and do ur best going forward.

Gd luck

 

[ArcGurren]

I am at risk of having a permanent academic dishonesty put on my transcript if the dean agrees with that sanction. I am a first year med student and I sent in my friends one page ungraded library assignment first semester and my honor council suggested that I receive a conditional grade for that clinically oriented class. In addition to the conditional grade on my transcript, it would say next to the grade that I received the grade as a result of academic dishonesty. I wanted to know if anyone knew how that would effect my chances of getting in to different residency programs (ie. whether they would discard my application immediately, or look at it and rank it lower due to the offense).

I'm confused as to what the offense actually was. Did you forge this person's name or something on the assignment or do it for them?

 

[reedman]

yeah it could hurt you. now you just need to do what you can to overcome that bad mark.

and come up with a really good explanation, not an excuse. if it was a misunderstanding of the rules on your part, then say so in your interviews.

however, i am willing to bet that quite a few people may not even notice unless it is mentioned in your letter from the dean.

 

[BigRedder]

Pretty sure the issue is that he copied his friend's assignment and handed it in as his own. As it was an ungraded assignment, that was really stupid.

Technically, any action taken against a student based on professionalism (i.e. plagiarism) is supposed to be noted on the MSPE that is sent along with your residency application. Most programs take this seriously, as noted in the NRMP survey.

 

[IlDestriero]

Be glad you did not go to school where I did, you would be expelled for doing what you wrote here. Ungraded or not, you blatantly cheated on a required assignment. One strike and you're out. Period.
If this appears in your Dean's letter, expect problems. If I were reviewing your application, I would not give you the benefit of the doubt. Hope your interviewers are not like me. Harsh, but true.

 

[alwaysaangel]

Be glad you did not go to school where I did, you would be expelled for doing what you wrote here. Ungraded or not, you blatantly cheated on a required assignment. One strike and you're out. Period.
If this appears in your Dean's letter, expect problems. If I were reviewing your application, I would not give you the benefit of the doubt. Hope your interviewers are not like me. Harsh, but true.

Agreed. I would do everything in your power to keep that from ending up on your transcript or in your dean's letter.

There are plenty of other applicants who didn't copy friends assignments and turn it in as their own (or at least were smart enough to not get caught). There is no reason a residency program will give you the benefit of the doubt over plenty of other qualified applicants.