Topic: Michael Wiggins

Some residency applicants misrepresent published works as their own

Some medical school graduates competing for coveted residency positions misrepresent themselves in their applications by plagiarizing, or falsifying published research or education credits.. "There's been an awareness for several years that, unfortunately, not everything you read on an application is completely derived ...

CORRECTED: On residency applications, some fudge the details

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A study of medical school graduates applying for ophthalmology residencies is the latest to show that some students may be tempted to doctor parts of their application to get ahead of the competition."Ophthalmology is a very competitive ...
Although ophthalmology has a relatively low reported percentage of residency applicant publication misrepresentation, it still occurs, with self-promotion on the author list being most common, according to a review published in the July issue of the Archives of Ophthalmology.. Michael N. Wiggins, ...