Extent of knowledge and attitudes on plagiarism among undergraduate medical students in South India - a multicentre, cross-sectional study to determine the need for incorporating research ethics in medical undergraduate curriculum.
Jeffrey Pradeep RajShreeraam VenkatachalamRajkumar S AmaravatiRamya BaburajanAswathy Maria OommenJesin Elsa JoseRajad RReshmi RMelvin GeorgeBalaji RamrajBhuvaneswari GopalakrishnanT Suresh KumarAhammed K SaleemMohandas RaiVijay Subbaraju PenumutsaDeepthi Rani BoddaB Lakshmi PrasannaGuru Prasad ManderwadRajiv SBasavaraj BhandarePrashanth MadaDilip MathaiRajalakshmi AiyappanPhilip MathewPublished in: BMC medical education (2022)
The overall knowledge score was poor. A vast majority of study participants fell in the moderate category of attitude score. These findings warrant the need for incorporating formal training in the medical education curriculum.