Doctor who plagiarised medical education theses is suspended for six months

A doctor who plagiarised two other doctors’ theses when submitting his own thesis for a master’s degree in medical education has been suspended from the medical register for six months, despite his hospital’s pleas that he is needed on the job.Ashesh Saha, a locum consultant in acute medicine at Royal Derby Hospital, also self plagiarised, including text in his thesis for the degree at University College London for which he had already obtained marks as part of a previous diploma. He sent in the plagiarised work despite being warned that the thesis submission software’s routine analysis had generated an unusually high “similarity score” of 48%. He signed a document attesting that it was the result of his own work, that sources had been acknowledged, and that the work had not been submitted for any previous award.The university reported Saha to the General Medical Council soon after these events in 2019….
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