Controversy with dean of medicine at UofA
I am curious to hear some of your thoughts on this. I admittedly do not have a ton of post secondary schooling, but what I do have, it was drilled into us that plagiarism is very serious. Obviously. Now you have the dean of medicine who has been caught taking material without citing its source during a commencement speech. He should know better, and I think he does, but should there be some sort of punishment over this? Or is this not as serious as some are making it out to be?
http://edmonton.ctv.ca/servlet/an/lo...b=EdmontonHome
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The dean of medicine at the University of Alberta is under investigation after he allegedly plagiarized a convocation speech last week.
Dr. Philip Baker delivered an address to graduating medical students on Friday, but some of the graduates recognized the speech as the same one delivered last year by Dr. Atul Gawande to Stanford medical students.
In a letter to students who said the speech showed a lack of respect, Dr. Baker says the original text of the speech was so inspiring he decided to use it as his own.
"I have heard from you following the graduation banquet when the theme (and much of the content) of my speech was similar to that of one given by Dr. Atul Gawande," Dr. Baker writes.
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