Why is Vientiane medical staff easy to become a deceived group of "writing and issuing papers on behalf of others"
Ms. Wang, 41, is a nurse in a hospital in Taizhou City, Jiangsu Province. Because of her job title, she needs to publish papers in relevant academic journals. Ms. Wang, who hasn't written for many years, heard from friends that there are "gunners" on the Internet who specialize in the business of "writing and publishing papers on behalf of others," and she was a little tempted.
What people did not expect was that Ms. Wang encountered a liar. According to the Jiangyan Branch of the Public Security Bureau of Taizhou City, Jiangsu Province (hereinafter referred to as the "Jiangyan Police") that detected the case, the criminal gang has committed more than 1,000 crimes and defrauded more than 6 million yuan. Among them, most of the victims involved were doctors and nurses, and the amount defrauded each was between 5,000 yuan and 10,000 yuan.
A reporter from China Youth Daily and China Youth Daily learned in an interview that it is a common phenomenon that medical staff have difficulty in appraising professional titles. Many medical staff continue to call for the country to reform the traditional title review system, free medical staff from the title papers, and let everyone have a better working status.
Businessmen who "issue and write on behalf of" papers target medical staff
In May last year, Ms. Wang searched the Internet and found many "businessmen" who "written and published papers on behalf of others". Later, she chose one of the "institutions" for a simple consultation and added the WeChat account provided by the other party to establish contact.
The other party claims that not only can they distribute papers on their behalf, they can even provide writing services based on professional needs, and guarantee that the papers written on their behalf can be published in the journal. The other party also sent some past "successful examples" to Ms. Wang, stating that "the company should cooperate with several journals in depth" and reminded not to worry.
After the two parties agreed on the price, Ms. Wang first transferred the 3,000 yuan "deposit" to the other party through WeChat, and agreed to write the paper and discuss the publication after confirmation. Three months later, Ms. Wang received the paper as scheduled. The content was related to her topic, but the quality was not high, and it should be difficult to publish under normal circumstances. The other party told her that as long as she pays the manuscript fee, she can publish it in the national journal. Although Ms. Wang was a little suspicious, she turned to the agreed 5,500 yuan. After the transfer, I waited for several months, but no paper was published.
Ms. Wang kept contacting each other, but no one responded. After realizing that she was deceived, at the end of April this year, Ms. Wang, who was ashamed and annoyed, reported to the Jiangyan police with persuasion from her family.
After receiving the police, the Jiangyan police inquired in detail about the process of being deceived, and collected and verified evidence such as relevant transfer records. Since then, the anti-fraud center police focused on in-depth research and judgment on the WeChat account of the crime, and identified the suspect as Huang from Zhanjiang, Guangdong. After further investigation, the police determined that the gang headed by Huang had at least more than 10 members and determined that the main dens of the criminal gang were located in Kunming, Yunnan and Zhanjiang, Guangdong.
On May 12, the Jiangyan police organized more than 20 police forces to go to the two places to arrest them. After repeated investigations, with the support of the local police, 12 criminal suspects including Huang were arrested in one fell swoop and detained at the scene. There are more than one hundred tools used for fraud such as mobile phones and computers.
According to Sun Qiao, a police officer handling the case of Jiangyan Public Security Bureau, most of the criminals in the criminal gang have junior high school education and only two people have high school education. They do not have the ability to write and distribute professional papers.
In addition to the online platform advertisement that caused Ms. Wang to be deceived, Sun Qiao said that there are several staff members in the gang who are responsible for offline "business operations." They focused their attention on hospitals everywhere, photographed the address book of medical staff, and compiled it into the company system. After that, other staff in the office fabricated the editorial identity of a certain journal and sent text messages to doctors and nurses one by one, asking if there were any related needs and seeking specific “cooperation”.
The business of "distributing and writing papers on behalf of others" is booming
"It is a shameful thing to write and publish papers on behalf of others. The quality of the written papers received by many people is poor and cannot be published. After discovering that they have been deceived, they chose to'silence'. The criminal gangs are very clever. This mentality is used to commit fraud." Sun Qiao said.
After being arrested, the criminal suspect Huang and others truthfully confessed the facts of committing fraud under the guise of "writing and publishing papers on behalf of".
Two years ago, the "leader" of this gang, Mr. Huang, listened to a friend's introduction and helped people write papers on the Internet. The money came quickly. He could also take orders online, and then send the title of the article to a special "gunner" to write on behalf of him. Earn the difference.
Huang planned to open his first "company" in Kunming, Yunnan, because he had no formal occupation before. After a period of time, he found that the business was "prosperous," and he simply started a "business" of fraud by "writing and publishing papers". In order to "develop business", he also recruited two younger sisters, fellow villagers and several Guangxi friends to join the team, and opened a second "branch" in Zhanjiang, Guangdong, in an attempt to make more profits.
The information disclosed by the Public Security Bureau of Taizhou City shows that in order to increase the confusion, the criminal suspect has mastered some "routines" and professional terminology for writing and distributing papers.
Under normal circumstances, the criminal suspect will charge 5,000 yuan to 9,000 yuan for the "manuscript fee and publication fee" according to the journal level and word count required for the manuscript, and promise to publish in the designated journal within 3 months after receiving the payment . In fact, after receiving the payment, they never submitted an article to the designated journal. If the other party was rushed, they would randomly send the article to some amateur magazines without a journal number to deal with, or simply ignore it.
In this regard, the Public Security Bureau of Taizhou City reminded that looking for "gunmen" to write and distribute papers on their behalf not only violates academic spirit and professional ethics, but it is also easy to fall into the trap of fraud, and the gains outweigh the gains.
Why is it difficult for medical staff to appraise job titles
In 2017, Springer Nature Publishing Group once revoked 107 suspected fake Chinese medical papers in its journal "Tumor Biology". Doctors from many top domestic hospitals were suspected of being among them, and there were even well-known doctors in key departments. .
This phenomenon makes people wonder, how difficult is it for medical staff to evaluate professional titles? Why are medical staff more likely to fall into the quagmire of paper fraud?
Chen Ying (pseudonym), 48, is a nurse in the Department of Infectious Diseases of a second-class hospital in Nanjing. Two years ago, Chen Ying, who had been in the industry for nearly 30 years, was finally awarded a senior professional title through various audits.
She said that the medical and nursing industry has strict requirements for working years. After graduating from technical secondary school, Chen Ying took a bachelor's degree, and five years after obtaining the qualification of nurse, she applied for the junior professional title of nurse. After that, every 5 years, you can apply for the middle-level title supervisor nurse, the deputy senior title deputy chief nurse, and the senior title chief nurse, and you must take the corresponding examination for each promotion.
In the evaluation of intermediate and senior professional titles, the papers and academic achievements of applicants are one of the important evaluation indicators. "Now the country has higher and higher requirements for publishing papers. If you want to get a senior professional title, you must publish papers in core journals of statistical sources or Chinese core journals."
Promoted from sub-high to full high, Chen Ying published 6 articles in core journals. She graduated in 1990. At that time, there were about 40 people in the class. At present, she is the only one who has a senior professional title.
In fact, even if the daily work performance and academic papers are up to the standard, it may not be able to be promoted smoothly. It depends on whether the unit has a professional title promotion quota. After Chen Ying received the deputy senior title in 2009, it took another 9 years to wait for a full-senior chief nurse to apply for the quota. In the end, she "squeezed her head" and was promoted smoothly.
"I can receive calls for writing papers on behalf of me almost every day. Now that the departments in the hospital are getting more and more detailed, it is difficult to find an academic innovation point, and it is difficult to produce scientific research results. These objective reasons have given birth to the sale of papers. And thesis fraud.” said Li Tong, deputy chief physician of the Department of Infectious Diseases, Beijing You'an Hospital. As a first-line clinician, his weekly working hours far exceed the 40 hours stipulated by the state, and there is almost no complete weekend rest time. If he wants to study the topic and write a thesis, he can only squeeze in a short break.
The reform of the appraisal system for professional titles of medical staff is expected
Some insiders once wrote publicly that the most important duty of a doctor is to see a doctor and complete medical operations with high quality. The current "deformed" title promotion system in the medical circle makes the already busy doctors exhausted. "Going to do the'guinea pig' experiment and apply for scientific research funds. How can the doctors still have the energy to study medicine?"
An unnamed doctor analyzed that thesis and scientific research results are necessary conditions for the promotion of doctors. The doctor’s reputation, salary, and ranking of hospitals and departments are directly or indirectly linked to the results of the project, which ultimately leads to the clinical Doctors, including grassroots doctors, must apply for research topics. This is not very helpful to the actual treatment of diseases and saving people.
In recent years, more and more young doctors no longer value the traditional public hospital title evaluation system, and are no longer willing to spend 20 years of youth in exchange for a subordinate or full professional title, but choose to leave public hospitals. This caused a brain drain to a certain extent.
A reporter from China Youth Daily and China Youth Daily noted that in April last year, the National Health Commission issued the "Guiding Opinions on Further Reforming and Improving the Evaluation of Professional Titles of Primary-level Health Professionals", and proposed that we should adhere to the level and classification of evaluation standards and improve the basic level. The professionalism, pertinence and scientific nature of the assessment of health talents, while optimizing the assessment conditions, the foreign language performance of the primary health professional title may not be used as the application condition. Regarding the papers and scientific research requirements, there are no hard and fast rules and can be used as reference conditions for review.
Li Tong once said that, in fact, the evaluation system for the promotion of doctors’ professional titles by medical institutions has always been "equal importance to medical treatment and scientific research." However, compared with scientific research papers, clinical evaluation is difficult to quantify. In actual implementation, it has gradually evolved into "research. "Re-examination of thesis", medical treatment is not the most important thing.
A doctor who has been immersed in the medical circle for many years suggested that: for doctors who are good at clinical, the evaluation of professional titles can be based on clinical evaluation indicators such as patient evaluation, number of operations and bed turnover; for doctors who are good at scientific research, they should focus on their scientific research. Circumstances allow them to make greater achievements in the field of medical research.
"Clinicians emphasize clinical scientific research and should not be independent. Good clinicians must understand the basics and think well. They should guide medical workers to think in clinical work and use scientific research results to guide their daily work, rather than publishing papers just for promotion." Li Tong once said.
China Youth Daily · China Youth Daily reporter Li Chao correspondent Wu Jinsong Li Yujie Source: China Youth Daily