It would seem self-evident that an applicant for a job should be scrupulously honest. First, it is the right thing to do. Secondly, in our digital era, one’s academic record can be accessed back to kindergarten. Yet, many applicants will embellish their credentials or claim a skill level that may exceed reality. Thirty years ago, I was applying for my first job in New Jersey after completing my 2 year gastroenterology (GI) fellowship. I was not competent to perform ERCP, a complex scope examination that GI practices desperately still want to add to their practices' skill sets. Yet, I was advised by a practicing GI physician to simply claim that I could do the procedure. Otherwise, he said, they would simply pass me by. I queried the practitioner on my proposed course of action after being hired if I were summoned to perform an ERCP. Decades later, I do not recall his response. I can imagine what my new employer’s response might have been upon discovering tha
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