KNOWLEDGE AND ATTITUDE OF MEDICAL STUDENTS REGARDING PLAGIARISM
Pooja Yadav and Dr. Arti A. Kasulkar*
ABSTRACT
Plagiarism is a form of dishonesty, illegitimate appropriation of intellectual property, ideas, methods, results, text, speech or thought for the purpose of displaying as its own. The present study was carried out in 100 medical students to assess the knowledge and attitude regarding plagiarism. We observed that most of the students displayed insufficient knowledge regarding plagiarism in terms of copying words or ideas, quoting references, copying words without changing the matter. We concluded that it is alarming pace and to eradicate the problem, orientation of medical students through lectures, seminars, and workshops is need of hour.
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