Resume fraud: unverifiable publications of urology training program applicants.
OBJECTIVE
We examined the incidence of resume fraud among urology residency applicants by determining the rate of misrepresented publications listed in applications to a urology residency program.


METHODS
Applications from all 147 urology residency applicants to a program from the 2007 application cycle were analyzed. Verification of listed publications was attempted by querying PubMed, Google Scholar and MEDLINE. Univariate analysis was conducted to assess associations between unverifiable publications and applicant demographics.


RESULTS
Of the applicants who submitted publications 19% (14 of 71) had at least 1 unverifiable publication, which represented 9% (14 of 147) of the entire applicant pool. There were no statistically significant associations between misrepresented publications and applicant demographics.


CONCLUSIONS
Applicants had a low but still unacceptable rate of misrepresented publications and this trend in academic medicine is of great concern.
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Israel P
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Sol and Margaret Berger Department of Urology, Beth Israel Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, New York 10003, USA.
Friedmann
Patricia
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Nagler
Harris M
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Dinlenc
Caner Z
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D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D005607:Fraud / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency; D007586:Job Application; D008297:Male; D011643:Publishing / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014572:Urology / Q000193:education; D055815:Young Adult