Healthy Skepticism Library item: 5519

Warning: This library includes all items relevant to health product marketing that we are aware of regardless of quality. Often we do not agree with all or part of the contents.

Publication type: Journal Article

Harrison V
An overview of current guidelines for commercial support of continuing medical education
Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions 1993; 13:68-76

Abstract:

Concern about commercial companies inappropriately influencing CME activities has resulted in the development of several new sets of interrelated guidelines concerning commercial support for CME. National guidelines have been produced by the Task Force on CME Provider-Industry Collaboration, the AMA, the AAMC, the ACCME, the PMA, and the FDA. The various sets of guidelines each apply to different constituencies: accrediting bodies, institutions accredited to provide CME, academic faculty who present CME, physicians who attend CME, and commercial companies who support CME. The guidelines have been developed in coordination with each other, providing interrelated guidance for all constituencies involved in commercially supported CME.

Keywords:
*nonsystematic review/*policy statement & guideline/United States/continuing medical education/corporate funding/ relationship between medical profession and industry/doctors/ETHICAL ISSUES IN PROMOTION: LINKS BETWEEN HEALTH PROFESSIONALS AND INDUSTRY/PROMOTION DISGUISED: SUPPORT FOR CME/REGULATION, CODES, GUIDELINES: CME