TY - JOUR ID - 90072 TI - Investigation of medical students opinions on cheating and its frequency JO - Strides in Development of Medical Education JA - SDME LA - en SN - 2645-3525 AU - Nakhaee, Nozar AU - Seyyed Hosseinie, Seyyed Vahid AD - Assistant Professor of Community Medicine Department AD - General Practitioner Y1 - 2005 PY - 2005 VL - 1 IS - 2 SP - 57 EP - 63 KW - opinion KW - medical student KW - cheating KW - Ethics DO - N2 -  Background: Cheating among university students is highly common so that some experts have described it as “epidemic”  Objective: To determine the opinion of medical students in one of medical universities towards cheating and to estimate its frequency  Methods: A selfadministered questionnaire content valid and reliable was distributed among medical students (between years 1 to 6) at the end of lectures They were asked to estimate the frequency of cheating among their classmates and to show whether or not they approve the cheating behavior types on a likert scale  Results: Of three hundred and two students participated in the study all replied 68% of respondents were female and the rest were male The range of the students in each level was 31 persons (level three) to 85 ones (the sixth level) According to the findings “attendance of another person in the exam session” was the most rejected cheating type ( =413) and the most approved type of cheating was “not informing the teacher about the wrong higher score” ( =263) A considerable rate of students (about 50%) approved some types of cheating The relative frequency of some types of cheating has been estimated to about 50% Comparing the students opinions showed no significant difference in terms of sex  Conclusion: Paying attention to cheating among students is necessary UR - https://sdme.kmu.ac.ir/article_90072.html L1 - https://sdme.kmu.ac.ir/article_90072_9e4ce3ab557036884b911381d9ba3362.pdf ER -