Open AccessACADEMIC INTEGRITY
Author(s) -
Farhat ul Ain Ahmed,
Attia Sheikh
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
the professional medical journal/the professional medical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2071-7733
pISSN - 1024-8919
DOI - 10.29309/tpmj/2016.23.08.1660
Subject(s) - academic integrity , academic dishonesty , misconduct , medicine , scientific misconduct , scientific integrity , engineering ethics , dishonesty , curriculum , research integrity , personal integrity , structural integrity , medical education , cheating , pedagogy , social psychology , law , pathology , sociology , psychology , engineering , alternative medicine , political science , structural engineering
Academic misconduct is a serious and a common problem. The aim of this articleis to review the literature for different methods used to counteract this problem. My synthesisis that the use of these mechanical methods of detecting and deterring dishonesty leads toa climate of us versus them between students and faculty and to an environment of policesrather than a culture of integrity. Moral development can be integrated into curriculum throughprofessional ethics courses with the purpose to develop academic integrity.