Healthy Skepticism Library item: 1138
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Publication type: Journal Article
Zoorob R, Larzelere M.
Gifts to physicians from the pharmaceutical and medical manufacturing industry: what every physician should know.
J La State Med Soc 2004 Jan-Feb; 156:(1):28-32
Abstract:
Continuing Medical Education (CME) has been at the cornerstone of life-long learning for physicians for almost four decades. Constraints on physician services and reimbursement during the same period of time have increased the physicians’ and CME providers’ dependency on financial support from the medical industrial complex for CME activities. In a related arena, the competitive nature of the medical industrial complex has resulted in a frenzy of “enticements,” amenities, or gifts for physicians. The busy practitioner is vulnerable to many unethical practices currently being reported and identified by the public, often unjustly presenting a tarnished image of the entire medical profession. The Louisiana State Medical Society Continuing Medical Education Accreditation Committee (LSMS CMEAC) recommended a review article on the current practices, attitudes, and guidelines relating to gifts to physicians from industry and industry’s appropriate financial support for CME activities. Dr. Roger Zoorob, a member of the LSMS CMEAC, along with Michele Larzelere, PhD, responded to the committee’s request.
Keywords:
*analysis
*nonsystematic review
United States
physicians
relationship between medical profession and industry
conflict-of-interest
gift giving
CME
Louisiana State Medical Society
ATTITUDES REGARDING PROMOTION: HEALTH PROFESSIONALS
ETHICAL ISSUES IN PROMOTION: GIFT GIVING
ETHICAL ISSUES IN PROMOTION: LINKS BETWEEN HEALTH PROFESSIONALS AND INDUSTRY
PROMOTION DISGUISED: SUPPORT FOR CME
REGULATIONS, CODES, GUIDELINES: CME
REGULATIONS, CODES, GUIDELINES: HEALTH PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
Notes:
analysis/nonsystematic review
