Healthy Skepticism Library item: 2995

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Publication type: Journal Article

Kaplan NM.
The support of continuing medical education by pharmaceutical companies
New England Journal of Medicine 1979; 300:194-196

Abstract:

The article examines three questions: 1) why should continuing medical education be subsidized by drug companies; 2) what are the consequences of this practice; and 3) where are CME-drug company relations heading. Oral presentations are the most frequently used format for CME and also the format most difficult to regulate and therefore this article focuses on this type of CME.

Keywords:
*analysis/United States/ CME/ conference speakers/ continuing medical education/ corporate funding/ promotion costs and volume/ quality of information/ regulation of promotion/ guidelines, discussion of/PROMOTION DISGUISED: COMPANY SPONSORED SPEAKING TOURS AND CONFERENCE SPEAKERS/PROMOTION DISGUISED: SUPPORT FOR CME/VOLUME OF AND EXPENDITURE ON PROMOTION