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Medical school has to have a higher standard and any amount of cheating will get you expelled from most medical schools. Some of my classmates tried to use Chat GPT to summarize things to study faster, and it just meant that they got things wrong because they firmly believed the hallucinations and bullshit. There's a reason you have to take the MCAT to be eligible to apply for medical school, 2 board exams to graduate medical school, and a 3rd board exam after your first year of residency. And there's also board exams at the end of residency for your specialty.
The exams will weed out the cheaters eventually, and usually before they get to the point of seeing patients unsupervised, but if they cheat in the classes graded on a curve, they're stealing a seat from someone who might have earned it fairly. In the weed-out class example you gave, if there were 3 cheaters in the top half, that means students 51, 52, and 53 are wrongly denied the chance to progress.
Having a "high standard" is very different from having a cut-throat advancement policy. And, as with any school policy, the investigation and prosecution of cheating varies heavily based on your social relations in the school. And when reports of cheating reach such high figures
then the problem is no longer with the individual but the educational system.
Nevermind the fact that his hasn't born itself out. Medical Malpractice rates do not appear to shift based on the number of board exams issued over time. Hell, board exams are as rife with cheating as any other academic institution.
If cheating produces a higher class rank, every student has an incentive to cheat. It isn't an issue of being seat 51 versus 50, it's an issue of competing with other cheating students, who could be anywhere in the basket of 100. This produces high rates of cheating that we see reported above.
Medical malpractice is very rarely due to gaps in knowledge and is much more likely due to accidents, miscommunication, or negligence. The board exams are not taken at the school and have very stringent anti-cheating measures. The exams are done at testing centers where they have the palm vein scanners, identity verification, and constant video surveillance throughout the test. If there is any irregularity during your exam, it will get flagged and if you are found to have cheated, you are banned from ever taking the exam again. (which also prevents you from becoming a physician)