Students come to medical schools prepared to cheat: a multi-campus investigation.

Objectives: To investigate high school cheating experiences and attitudes towards academic misconduct of freshmen at all four medical schools in Croatia, as a post-communist country in transition, with intention of raising awareness of academic (dis)honesty.

Design And Method: Students were given an anonymous questionnaire containing 22 questions on the atmosphere of integrity at their high school, self-reported educational dishonesty, their evaluation of cheating behaviour, and on their expectations about the atmosphere of integrity at their university.

Setting: All schools of medicine of Croatian universities (Zagreb, Rijeka, Split and Osijek).