Academia is one where the chickens won’t come home to roost - as in you won’t actually be called to DO what you’re impostering to be able to do.
Fake being a surgeon and they’ll assign you to surgery, etc.
Fake being a surgeon and they’ll assign you to surgery, etc.
Judging by some of the revelations in other business it seems not exceptional for people to add things to their cv's they've never done. And it's much less likely to ever come out, because people are less likely to check (and it might also be more difficult to check)
Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/451/