Javaeed Arslaan, Khan Abdus Salam, Khan Shafqat Husnain, Ghauri Sanniya Khan
Dr. Arslaan Javaeed, MBBS, M.Phil, Department of Pathology, Poonch Medical College, Rawalakot, Azad Kashmir, Paksitan.
Dr. Abdus Salam Khan, MD, FACP, Department of Emergency Medicine, Shifa International Hospital, Islamabad, Pakistan.
Pak J Med Sci. 2019 Mar-Apr;35(2):532-536. doi: 10.12669/pjms.35.2.33.
With the rise in the number of published papers in the biomedical field, plagiarism has become a major ethical concern as it has a direct effect on the quality of these papers. The objective of this research was to determine the perceptions of medical students towards plagiarism, the reasons students engage in plagiarism, the types of plagiarism, the consequences of plagiarism, and solutions to the problem of plagiarism.
This is a cross-sectional study conducted in two medical colleges in Rawalpindi, Pakistan from June to September, 2018, using self-administered structured questionnaires.
Of the 1100 participants, up to 86.91% (n=956) were not aware of the existence of plagiarism, but the majority, i.e. 71.18% (n=783) have plagiarised the work of others before. Copying from colleagues or senior students is the most common type of plagiarism that medical students engage in owing to the ease with which fellow students' work can be shared and copied. However, a lack of institutional awareness of the extent to which plagiarism exists, poor vigilance in detecting it, and the absence of clear policies to deal with plagiarism are mostly to blame.
Plagiarism is common among medical students in developing countries, and it is necessary to create awareness about the consequences of engaging in this unethical practice both in the academic field and in the larger medical research society, in order to reduce its prevalence.
随着生物医学领域发表论文数量的增加，抄袭已成为一个主要的伦理问题，因为它直接影响这些论文的质量。本研究的目的是确定医学生对抄袭的看法、学生抄袭的原因、抄袭的类型、抄袭的后果以及解决抄袭问题的方法。
这是一项横断面研究，于2018年6月至9月在巴基斯坦拉瓦尔品第的两所医学院进行，采用自行填写的结构化问卷。
在1100名参与者中，高达86.91%（n=956）的人不知道抄袭的存在，但大多数人，即71.18%（n=783）以前曾抄袭过他人的作品。由于同学的作品易于分享和复制，从同事或高年级学生那里抄袭是医学生最常见的抄袭类型。然而，主要应归咎于机构对抄袭存在程度的认识不足、检测抄袭时的警惕性差以及缺乏处理抄袭的明确政策。
抄袭在发展中国家的医学生中很常见，有必要在学术领域和更广泛的医学研究界提高对这种不道德行为后果的认识，以降低其发生率。
