AI for Plagiarism Detection

Most Indian medical universities accept 10-15 percent similarity for routine assignments and 5-10 percent for final year dissertations, though standards vary by institution. AIIMS and top medical colleges often enforce stricter limits of 5 percent for research publications. Always check your specific university's academic integrity policy, as some institutions exclude bibliography and standard medical terminology from similarity calculations while others include everything.

Grammarly Premium scans over 16 billion web pages including major Indian medical journals like Indian Journal of Medical Research, Journal of Postgraduate Medicine, and standard textbooks available online. However, it may not catch matches from physical-only Indian publications or university-specific study materials. For comprehensive checking of India-specific sources, combine Grammarly with your university's institutional subscription to Turnitin or iThenticate.

Use Grammarly to identify which sections match established guidelines, then add proper citations to WHO protocols, ICMR guidelines, or standard treatment textbooks rather than trying to reword universally accepted medical procedures. For disease definitions and diagnostic criteria that must remain exact, use quotation marks and cite the authoritative source like Harrison's or Kumar & Clark's. Grammarly's citation generator can automatically format these references in the Vancouver style most Indian medical colleges require.

Grammarly Free limits plagiarism checks to small text samples and does not provide comprehensive scanning of full dissertations or research papers. For MBBS students, the Premium version at approximately 850 rupees monthly is essential for checking 10,000-15,000 word thesis chapters and accessing citation tools. Many students share Premium accounts with 3-4 batchmates during final year to split costs, though this violates terms of service.

Grammarly typically processes a 15,000-20,000 word dissertation in 3-5 minutes, providing an immediate originality score and detailed source matching report. Reviewing the results and making necessary paraphrasing or citation corrections usually takes 2-3 hours for a full thesis. Plan to run your final check at least 72 hours before submission deadline to allow time for addressing any unexpected high-similarity sections without rushing.

Grammarly's paraphrasing suggestions maintain natural medical writing style that generally passes AI detection tools, but some universities now use GPTZero or Turnitin's AI detector alongside plagiarism checkers. The safest approach is understanding source material well enough to explain concepts in your own words, then using Grammarly only to verify originality and fix grammar. Never copy-paste entire paragraphs into AI paraphrasers, as this often produces medically inaccurate content that becomes obvious during viva examinations.

Run plagiarism checks before final formatting since you may need to add citations, rewrite sections, or reorganize content based on similarity results. Grammarly preserves basic formatting like headings and lists, but complex medical tables or figures may need reformatting after corrections. Check your content in this order: plagiarism detection, grammar and spelling fixes, citation formatting, then final layout and table insertion to avoid redoing formatting work multiple times.

Assign each group member specific sections to write independently, then use Grammarly to check the compiled document for both external plagiarism and overlap between team members' contributions. Create a shared citation library in Zotero or Mendeley that all members use to ensure consistent referencing. Before final submission, verify that individual contributions show acceptable originality scores, as some universities hold all group members accountable if one person submits plagiarized content.