title: Prevalence of lapses in academic integrity in two Pakistani medical colleges.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To determine prevalence of professionalism lapses related to academic integrity by students Pakistani medical colleges.
  
  
  METHODS
  520 students.
  
  
  METHODS
  Cross sectional.
  
  
  METHODS
  A validated and customized version of Dundee Polyprofessional Inventory-1 for use in Pakistani medical schools was used. The students' perceptions on 47 behaviors were explored.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The response rate of students was 92%. Ninety percent or more than 90% of student agreed that 30 of the 47 listed behaviors were wrong. Different percentages of the students admitted doing 44 (94%), out of 47 behaviors. Students thought that fellow students were doing dishonest behaviors far more frequently than they themselves were. The commonest dishonest behaviors admitted were proxy attendance (308, 64%), receiving information about the paper from a student who has already sat in the exam, or themselves providing information about a paper who have yet to sit in it (297, 62%), completing work for another student 291 (61%).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  There are significant issues related to academic integrity in Pakistani medical schools that require remedy. The Dundee Polyprofessional Inventory-1 as customized for use in Pakistan is a useful tool to measure professionalism lapses related to academic integrity.
authors.affiliation: Army Medical College , Pakistan .
authors.forename: Irfan
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Shukr
authors.forename: Sue
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Roff
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate; D004989:Ethics; D006801:Humans; D010154:Pakistan; D013337:Students, Medical