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http://dx.doi.org/10.17555/jvc.2015.04.32.2.174

A Matter of Professionalism: Academic Misconduct of Veterinary Students  

Chun, Myung-Sun (College of Veterinary Medicine, Seoul National University)
Ryu, Pan-Dong (College of Veterinary Medicine, Seoul National University)
Yoon, Junghee (College of Veterinary Medicine, Seoul National University)
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Journal of Veterinary Clinics / v.32, no.2, 2015 , pp. 174-179 More about this Journal
Abstract
Academic integrity guarantees the professional integrity and validity of the education and qualifications offered by the veterinary schools. In this study, we analyzed the responses of 528 veterinary students of two veterinary schools in Seoul regarding their awareness about, knowledge of, and frequency of engaging in academic misconduct. A total of 88.4 percent of the participants agreed that cheating and plagiarism by undergraduates would influence their future academic misconduct. The most common form of academic misconduct was plagiarism (71.7% in the A school, 69.5% in the B school), with falsification (40.2% in the A school, 31.7% in the B school) also reported at a high rate. Students indicated the lack of a culture of academic integrity as the main reason for academic misconduct. According to the regression analysis students' awareness and knowledge of academic integrity and their perception of peers' academic misconduct predicted a significant amount of variance of the frequency of academic misconduct. The findings of this study support that academic integrity should be learned in a flexible format from an early stage of professional development in veterinary curriculum. In parallel with the efforts of faculty, a community approach may be likely to improve the academic environment in terms of integrity.
Keywords
academic misconduct; veterinary student; professionalism;
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