http://www.nytimes.com/1984/04/03/science/cheating-on-exams-for-doctors-causes-alarm.html?pagewanted=2
Dr. Ray L. Casterline, executive director of the Philadelphia-based Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates, the organization that administers tests to foreign- trained doctors seeking to enter the medical profession in the United States, said an examination given last July was so compromised that as many as 4,000 of the 16,000 medical school graduates who took it apparently had prior knowledge of all or part of it.
''The exam was copied and then returned to our files,'' Dr. Casterline said. ''Whoever obtained the first copy sold it for $50,000 to someone who then sold a bunch of copies for $10,000 each to people who then sold them for $5,000 each. The marketing was just like cutting heroin.''
His organization is conducting an investigation, employing private detectives, but has failed to determine who had either stolen the original copy or sold subsequent copies.
Test-Taker Says Fraud Continues
Dr. Casterline said the commission had also hired security experts to devise better methods to safeguard the tests, in distributing and administering the exams, and even used armored cars to transport subsequent tests. Even so, there have been charges by some students who took the test a month ago that it, too, had been stolen, copied and offered for sale.
Dr. Caren Wisner of Bedford, N.Y., said that when she showed up at one of the test centers at the Seventh Regiment Armory on Park Avenue in Manhattan last month, a member of her medical school class in the Dominican Republic told her that the test had been compromised.
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