All University of Otago campuses have been implicated in an overseas placement rort that has rattled medical students around the country.
The university first began looking at its final year medical students when posts on social media showed some were off on holiday, instead of interning at hospitals.
It has since found one in five of its sixth year medical students failed to meet acceptable attendance requirements and falsified papers to cover it up.
That means 53 students across the Wellington, Dunedin and Christchurch campuses can't graduate, be registered as a doctor or start their new jobs.
Otago Medical School Dean Professor Barry Taylor spoke to media, saying he doesn't begrudge them an odd-three day weekend, but students have well and truly breached their trust.
