Abstract
Plagiarism is the ‘action or practice of taking someone else’s work, ideas, etc and passing it off as one’s own’. The word plagiarism was first recorded in the seventeenth century, and it originated from the Latin word plagiarius, which means ‘kidnapping’. How close does a written piece have to be to another to be considered plagiarism? A match of more than 10% to other’s existing works is one. This can occur in certain situations, for example, according to Segal et al. and others, more than 5% of those applying to a prestigious Northeastern United States teaching hospital exceeded 10% similarities when writing personal statements. This appears particularly problematic for international medical graduates. In a recent survey of internal medicine community hospital programs that we conducted through the Community Hospital Education and Research Network (CHERN), more than one-half of the replying programs were dominated by English as a Second Language (ESL) residents 82%. (Published: 30 April 2012) Citation: Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives 2012, 2: 18048 - http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/jchimp.v2i1.18048
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