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Experience of Teaching Academic Integrity to Undergraduate Medical Students

Kulsoom Ghias and Anita Allana

Introduction

• Medical education focus traditionally on

building scientific competencies for treating diseases

• As per the World Federation of Medical

Education, the competencies required for a “good” physician are:

Scientific knowledge Ethics

Context: Pakistan

• Students enter medical college with no or

very little exposure to “ethics”

• In many schools, copy-paste and other

such practices are rewarded

Context: Aga Khan University

• Private medical college established in Karachi in

1983

• Professional attribute: Providing compassionate,

ethically, legally, culturally, best possible care, with honesty and empathy

• Has had a formal bioethics curriculum since 1988

with iterations/revisions since then

AKU Medical College: Policies

• Student code of conduct
• Student academic integrity policy

Zero tolerance with regards to academic and research misconduct

Contextual, longitudinal curriculum across the five year programme focusing on knowledge, skills and attitudes to be an ethical medical practitioner

• Year 1:

– First module: Interactive, small-group session on academic integrity, with a focus on plagiarism

• Year 2:

– Research module: tutorial on ethical principles in research, including process of IRB review

Bioethics curriculum

• Students admit to acts of academic

misconduct in the past, both intentionally and unintentionally

• Targeted, timely sessions useful
• No breaches of academic/research integrity

reported since restructuring

Outcomes

• Cheating in exams if I was unprepared
• Copying homework
• Copy pasting from Wikipedia for my assignments

without citation

• While writing for an article for school’s newsletter

copied sentences from a Yahoo article and edited it

• Copying a friend’s work

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