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Table 4 Recommended responses by median to 34 lapses in poly-professionalism in undergraduate students by faculty and medical students

From: Your professionalism is not my professionalism: congruence and variance in the views of medical students and faculty about professionalism

S No

Survey statement

Faculty

Students

1

Getting or giving help for course work against a teacher’s rules (e.g. Lending work to another student to look at)

2

3

2

Removing an assigned reference from a shelf in the library in order to prevent other students from gaining access to the information in it

4

4

3

Signing attendance sheets for absent friends, or asking classmates to sign attendance sheets for you in labs or lectures

3.5

2

4

Drinking alcohol over lunch and interviewing a patient in the afternoon

6

6

5

Exchanging information about an exam before it has been taken (e.g. OSCE)

3

1

6

Forging a healthcare worker’s signature on a piece of work, patient chart, grade sheet or attendance form

6

5

7

Claiming collaborative work as one’s individual effort

5

4

8

Altering or manipulating data (e.g. Adjusting data to obtain a significant result)

6

4

9

Failure to follow proper infection control procedures

4.5

4

10

Threatening or verbally abusing a university employee or fellow student

5.5

5

11

Attempting to use personal relationships, bribes or threats to gain academic advantages by getting advance copies of exam papers or passing exam by such pressures on staff

7

5

12

Engaging in substance misuse (e.g. Drugs)

6

5

13

Completing work for another student

5

3

14

Intentionally falsifying results or treatment records in order to disguise mistakes

5

5

15

Physically assaulting a university employee or student

6.5

5

16

Purchasing work from a fellow student or internet, etc. supplier

5

4

17

Lack of punctuality for classes

3

2

18

Providing illegal drugs to fellow students

9

7

19

Not doing the part assigned in group work

4

3

20

Examining patients without knowledge or consent of supervising clinician

4

3

21

Sabotaging another student’s work

5

5

22

Inventing extraneous circumstances to delay sitting an exam

4

3

23

Sexually harassing a university employee or fellow student

8

7

24

Resubmitting work previously submitted for a separate assignment or degree

5

3

25

Plagiarizing work from a fellow student or publications/internet

6

4

26

Cheating in an exam by e.g. copying from neighbour, taking in crib material or using mobile phone or getting someone else to sit for you

6

5

27

Cutting and pasting or paraphrasing material without acknowledging the source

4

3

28

Damaging public property, e.g. scribbling on desks or chairs

4

4

29

Falsifying references or grades on curriculum vitae or altering grades in the official record

7

5

30

Involvement in pedophilic activities - possession/viewing of child pornography images or molesting children

9

7

31

Photographing dissection or pro-section or cadaver materials

2.5

3

32

Joking or speaking disrespectfully about bodies/body parts

4

2

33

Inappropriate representation of Medicine in social media by posting photos/videos/texts about class or clinic activities

4

2

34

Posting inappropriate material about fellow students, teachers or patients on social media

6

4