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Volume 354:1851-1853 April 27, 2006 Number 17
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Unprofessional Behavior among Medical Students

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To the Editor: The real shocker in the report by Papadakis et al. (Dec. 22 issue)1 regarding disciplinary action by medical boards is the enormous prevalence of unprofessional behavior among medical students in the control group (nearly 20 percent). If unprofessional students become unprofessional doctors, then we face a real crisis, with huge numbers of unprofessional physicians currently in practice.

Medical students are reflective of society at large. Lack of professionalism among medical students is hardly surprising when high schools and colleges seem rife with unethical behavior that seems to be tolerated by society, including Internet plagiarism, résumé falsification, and . . . [Full Text of this Article]



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