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Published in: Journal of General Internal Medicine 11/2019

01-11-2019 | Concise Research Reports

Rate of Plagiarism in Personal Comments Essays of Applicants to a US Allopathic Medical School: an Observational Study

Authors: Linda S. Nield, MD, Manuel C. Vallejo, MD, DMD, Anna M. Lama, MA, Kristopher K. Yoon, MD, Alyson S. Carpenter, MA, Christina M. Baker, BSW, Gerald R. Hobbs, PhD

Published in: Journal of General Internal Medicine | Issue 11/2019

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Plagiarism is one type of a professionalism breach, and it has been reported to occur in the personal statements of residency applicants.1, 2 As there is no information in the literature about plagiarism in the personal comments essays of medical school applicants, the purpose of this study is to determine the rate of plagiarism in the personal comments essays of applications to an allopathic medical school in the United States (US). …
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Metadata
Title
Rate of Plagiarism in Personal Comments Essays of Applicants to a US Allopathic Medical School: an Observational Study
Authors
Linda S. Nield, MD
Manuel C. Vallejo, MD, DMD
Anna M. Lama, MA
Kristopher K. Yoon, MD
Alyson S. Carpenter, MA
Christina M. Baker, BSW
Gerald R. Hobbs, PhD
Publication date
01-11-2019
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Journal of General Internal Medicine / Issue 11/2019
Print ISSN: 0884-8734
Electronic ISSN: 1525-1497
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-019-05243-9

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