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Medical Residency Applicants and Plagiarism -

(blogs.wsj.com): A team from Brigham & Women’s Hospital wanted to know about a different sort of copycatting — using plagiarized material in a medical or surgical residency program admissions essay. In a study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, the researchers report finding ‘evidence of plagiarism’ in 5.2% of such essays by applicants to Brigham’s internal medicine, anesthesiology, general surgery, OB-GYN and emergency medicine residency programs between Sept. 2005 and March 2007.

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