Sydney Uni med students 'made up patients'

Sydney University medical students are said to have invented, and in some cases made patients rise from the dead, in order to fabricate interviews.

About one in three third-year students are believed to have been involved in falsifying reports and making up patients for a compulsory program last year, Fairfax Media reports.

In one case, a "patient" was found to be dead.

The university said in a statement to Fairfax Media that some students had been cleared after they were found to have made a simple mistake.

Others were found to have committed minor breaches of the university's plagiarism and dishonesty policy.

"At this stage there are no current students ... whose conduct was assessed to have been a major breach of the university's academic dishonesty policy and categorised as serious misconduct," the university said.