In Depth: Why Medical Students in China Are Faking Their Way to a Doctor’s License

Clinical studies graduate Liang Feng decided to use forged documents to sit the national physician licensing exam after discovering she was not eligible because she had not spent a year on probation at a medical facility. Liang paid 8,000 yuan ($1,180) to an institution that took care of everything, including creating a fake probationary certificate and a registration form.