Tip of the day, don’t cheat in exams

[Dr House]

So I just found out that one of my acquaintances who I was in university (year under me) with just got kicked out for cheating in one of his exams.

That’s 7 years he spent in medical school just to get the boot 1 month before he was due to graduate

He must be absolutely gutted!

 

[Dr House]

Nah, tip of the day - don't get caught!

LOL or that, it was only a bloody statistics and epidemiology exams so not even that hard

 

[Dr House]

7 years and all for nothing? Time for a nice jump off the nearest bridge.

To be honest I would really think of doing that if it happened to me and I was not married.

how did he get through 7 years and only now start or get busted for cheating? if he'd been at it for years, surely he'd have been caught out before now?

No idea, maybe maths was just not his thing

I doubt after 7 years of medical education that'll be the lot for him...

There is nothing he can do, its in the school rules they had a full disciplinary hearing and everything.

 

[Dr House]

He could still do nursing though right?

No, he would have to do what ever course is required to be a nurse.

Also Its a little hard to explain to another university why you did not finish the last course.

 

[Dr House]

can he repeat the year? even at a different school.
as its a shame to lose 7 years of study.
but he must be gutted

no I dont think any other university would let him in, I know in Czech they do not take transfer students after the end of 3rd year so he may be able to go back to the start of the 4th year in another school.

The course is 6 years long including FY1 year but you can take it in 7 if you want to.

 

[Dr House]

7 year course? christ mine was only going to be 6 and that was a foundation year on top the regular 5 year course

What university was this?

I thought it was 5 years normally?

Did this guy do a foundation year and an intercollated degree or something? Or was he a junior doctor already and cheating in whatever exams F1/F2 types sit?

Surely he's either already got a BSc from the extra year or already has a medical degree?

Charles University, Prague.

The course is 6 years long here, the final year is like FY1 in the uk and you have the option to do the final year over 2 years which many people do.

But you do not get a BSc. Also it it quite common to repeat a year in the first years, I would say around 25% of students fail at least one year. I had to repeat anatomy in my first year.

7 years down the drain does seem extremely harsh for that lapse of judgement. Maybe if there was evidence he had cheated all his other exams as well then I could understand, but that one exam sounds like it was the only one... It doesn't even sound like that bad a cheat - is knowing the name for all the muscles really an important part of being a doctor? Anyway, I'd have thought that making him resit the year would be a harsh enough punishment... Poor guy.

Still, that's what you get for cheating in such an obvious manner (looking at your gluteus maximus can hardly be subtle, really!).


Haha that's fantastic! You deserve at least a B for the creativity that went into that! If only op's mate had done that...

He is a smart guy and really did not need to cheat however he has had other problems with the university int he past and this was his second and last warning.

He had notes on his Ipod.

 

[Dr House]

Lol.

"For 10 marks, give a quote from Edgar Allen Poe"

*cracks open a can of Relentless* Good times!

He put notes on his iPod? Of all the ways to cheat isn't that possibly the dumbest imaginable? You could see someone across the room staring at an iPod even if its under the desk.

LOL its not that bad, he used the old ipod nano so he switched off the backlight and thought no one would see it.

I'm definitely with everyone else here. Cheating on a medical exam is shocking, what a terrible thing to do!

I do agree with you and I think the school would have set a really bad president if they did not kick him out.

However you really learn most of how to be a doctor when you are at work and not from exams.

 

[Dr House]

Wat? So he cheated in a (relatively) easy exam? Doesn't that make you think that maybe, just maybe, he cheated in other ones, too?

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Yes it was a very easy exam, it took me 10 days to study for that one. The bigger exams like Internal can take upto 6 weeks.

 

[Dr House]

Will he have masses of student debt to pay back?

No his dad would have paid, total cost would have been around 140k