Plagiarism: The Importance Of Cheating In Medical School

Student Ethics in the Digital Age Research Paper Rough Draft

In a world which technology is so controversially inculcated with education programs nationwide, student ethics are put to the test to a much further extent than the preceding days. This paper will give in depth analysis as to how and why students in universities are committing cyber plagiarism, and what teachers can do to combat plagiarism through the classroom. Students are tempted more and more to commit cyber plagiarism due to the rising competition among students in universities and the ease and convenience of “paper mill” websites and the use of the internet as tools to complete their assignments so that they can complete their education. The effect of this would vary from doctors

In Anita Kusnoor’s “Cheating in Medical School: The Unacknowledged Ailment” she defines burnout in medical school in a very clear, concrete manner, “Burnout has been defined as a syndrome with symptoms of emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and inefficacy” (Kusnoor). Students get burnt out on the course they are taking and will in turn cease to produce the desired results that the educator is presenting, making them resort to the Internet to plagiarize due to the convenience and availability of other’s information. Furthermore, the ease of access to the internet for plagiarizing purposes makes students burnout faster knowing there’s an easy escape from the curriculum their educators present them. As opposed to being burnout from the curriculum, some students commit plagiarism because they have been doing it for so long that it has been added to a part of their academic

According to Patrick Scanlon, in his article, “Student Online Plagiarism How Do We Respond?” Teachers have always suspected students of cheating and the fact that it’s on the rise as of the past few decades gives the worry and anxiety over whether or not the generation that is coming will be capable of moving things forward (Scanlon). Teachers should be using all their classroom time with students to educate them and move them forward intellectually instead of having to be detectives and find out which students are cheating and take away from those who are legitimate learners. Not only does online plagiarism make teachers have to take another role as detective, but it makes other students paranoid of whether or not they will be falsely accused of plagiarism. With teachers so busy reading each student’s work and checking it for legitimacy, nobody will be available to notice how the students who cheat are affected by their own cheating habits when working in