PGI Chandigarh Professor alleged for using fake data in published research to face final decision
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Chandigarh: A PGIMER Chandigarh faculty accused of using fake data as a basis of his research published in a journal in 2014, is going to face the final decision as the governing body meet in the first week of November is going to make a call on the matter.
A confirmation to this effect was made by the Director PGIMER, to the daily Tribune. The doctor, on the other hand is going to superannuate at the end of the month, added the daily. The doctor has faced 4 enquiries in the matter till now.
The professor and Head at the Pharmacology department at PGI was accused of "fraud" in a research paper in the year 2014 for allegedly showing the fake data of the helpline calls received by the department.
According to the media reports, the drug information unit (DIU) at the PGI received just one helpline call in three years duration from 2011 to 2013, but in 2014, three doctors of the department including the HOD claimed in a research paper that the unit had 56 calls in a month. The said research was published in a peer- reviewed Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research
A confirmation to this effect was made by the Director PGIMER, to the daily Tribune. The doctor, on the other hand is going to superannuate at the end of the month, added the daily. The doctor has faced 4 enquiries in the matter till now.
The professor and Head at the Pharmacology department at PGI was accused of "fraud" in a research paper in the year 2014 for allegedly showing the fake data of the helpline calls received by the department.
According to the media reports, the drug information unit (DIU) at the PGI received just one helpline call in three years duration from 2011 to 2013, but in 2014, three doctors of the department including the HOD claimed in a research paper that the unit had 56 calls in a month. The said research was published in a peer- reviewed Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research
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