This weekend opens the largest oncology meeting in the world ASCO 2014 in Chicago, IL. Over 20,000 oncologists from around the world come to hear the latest science in cancer treatment including presentations by company scientists on preclinical, phase I and phase II treatments. Last year the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), drastically changed […]
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CME Coalition Questions Pew Taskforce on COI Recommendations as “Irresponsible” and Potentially Dangerous to America’s Health
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This week, the Pew Charitable Trust Prescription Project released a small task force report for academic medical centers which included recommendations around continuing medical education (CME) that, if followed, could eliminate one out of every three dollars that are invested in accredited medical instruction for America’s doctors today. On the basis of three studies, from […]
In a recent edition of the Journal of Academic Medicine, Steven Kawczak and William Carey of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation discussed “The Effect of Industry Support on Participants’ Perceptions of Bias in Continuing Medical Education.” The purpose of the study was to obtain prospective evidence of whether industry support of continuing medical education (CME) affects perceptions […]
According to a recent article in the New York Times, Stanford today will “announce plans to develop new continuing education programs for doctors that will be devoid of drug industry influence.” As is the case for most media accounts of continuing medical education (CME), the article makes an exaggerated claim that industry influence has […]