Fifteen Otago medical students who went on holiday instead of working in the foreign hospitals they had chosen for their final-year internships may not be able to graduate this year.
The students went to an eastern European country to work as interns for up to six weeks but stayed at the medical centre for only one week.
The university is asking the students to pay back the grant that funded their travel and they may have to make up the time they didn't work on the internships.
The Dean of the Otago Medical School, Professor Barry Taylor, told RNZ's education correspondent John Gerritsen it's a stain against their futures.
