Any behaviour or action which contravenes academic integrity and breaches its fundamental values of honesty, trust, fairness, respect, responsibility, and courage is considered to constitute Academic Misconduct. Academic misconduct is any attempt to seek an unfair advantage in relation to any academic activity. Examples of academic misconduct include but are not limited to, plagiarism, cheating in any forum or form, misrepresentation of research (e.g. data falsification and fabrication of data), contract cheating, copy-editing, purchase of examination material, breaches of the Examinations and Assessment Regulations, impersonation, and any other act which dishonestly uses the information to gain academic credit. (RCSI AI policy)