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Is a $3 million grant from Pfizer the answer to creating continuing medical education courses that are free of industry influence? Yes, according to Stanford’s med school.<\/p>\nIs a $3 million grant from Pfizer the answer to creating continuing medical education courses that are free of industry influence? Yes, according to Stanford’s med school.<\/p>\n
In a statement<\/a> this morning, Stanford said the three-year grant comes with “no conditions, and the company will not be involved in developing the curriculum.”<\/p>\n Drug companies, medical device makers and other health-care companies spend about $1 billion<\/a> every year to sponsor the continuing medical education courses that doctors have to take to keep their licenses up to date. But as lawmakers<\/a>, among others, have started to pay more attention to the financial ties between doctors and industry, there’s been a move to limit the industry’s influence on CME courses.<\/p>\n Stanford said<\/a> back in 2008 that it would no longer accept industry financing from companies that wanted to fund specific CME courses. Also that year, Pfizer stopped funding<\/a> CME provided by third-party, for-profit companies.<\/p>\n The new CME curriculum is being designed by Stanford docs and will aim to be more participatory and interactive than traditional lectures. The courses will take place on the Stanford campus.<\/p>\n This morning’s New York Times<\/a> includes a report on the Stanford-Pfizer arrangement, with mixed comments from a few docs who have studied doctor-industry ties. One doc praised the move, saying Stanford “is once again leading the pack.” Another says the announcement that industry funding will lead to an independent curriculum is “self-satirizing.”<\/p>\n In the statement from Stanford, Pfizer’s chief medical officer says the company wants to “help redefine how CME is funded so that practicing physicians can get access to the latest science, presented in ways that unquestionably put the interests of the patient first and foremost.”<\/p>\n Photo: Associated Press<\/em><\/p>\n Is a $3 million grant from Pfizer the answer to creating continuing medical education courses that are free of industry influence? Yes, according to Stanford’s med school. In a statement this morning, Stanford said the three-year grant comes with “no conditions, and the company will not be involved in developing the curriculum.” Drug companies, medical […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":650,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/img><\/a>
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