On the Issue
AAMC
Calls for Strict Limits on Industry Support of Medical Education
(News Release - June 19, 2008)
"Industry
Funding of Medical Education, Report of the AAMC
Task Force" (PDF, 43 pages, Report - June 2008)
Report Pushes
for Ban on Industry Gifts (Podcast, MP3 audio, 8 mins.)
"Report
Pushes for Ban on Industry Gifts" (AAMC Reporter,
July 2008)
The new AAMC report offers guiding principles and recommendations
for how medical schools and teaching hospitals should govern
student and faculty interactions with industry. The report's
ultimate objective is to prevent conflicts of interest that
can distort therapeutic judgments and decision making.
The
Scientific Basis of Influence and Reciprocity: A Symposium
(PDF, 43 pages, Report - June 2007)
The AAMC held a symposium designed to explore the challenges
to objectivity that are presented by gifts, favors, and influence
by illuminating the emerging evidence on the underlying neurobiological
substrates and processes of influence and reciprocity.
Conflicts
of Interest Targeted in Research, Medical Education
(AAMC Reporter, March 2007)
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Related Resources
Guidelines
for Interactions between Clinical Faculty and the Pharmaceutical
Industry: One Medical School's Approach
(Academic Medicine, October 2007)
The Hidden Curriculum: Medical
Students' Changing Opinions toward the Pharmaceutical Industry
(Academic Medicine, October 2007)
Attitudes
of Preclinical and Clinical Medical Students Toward Interactions
with the Pharmaceutical Industry (Academic Medicine,
January 2007)
Residents' Perceptions
Over Time of Pharmaceutical Industry Interactions and Gifts
and the Effect of an Educational Intervention
(Academic Medicine, July 2006)
Health
Industry Practices That Create Conflicts of Interest (JAMA,
January 2006, co-authored by AAMC President Emeritus Jordan
J. Cohen, M.D., subscription required)
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Industry
Funding of Medical Education, Report of the AAMC Task Force
(PDF, 43 pages, Report - June 2008)
Information on Conflicts of Interests in
Medical Research
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