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Pharmaceutical industry support prevalent in GME

Residency Program Connection, March 2, 2010

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A survey of internal medicine residency programs shows that many program directors accept funding from pharmaceutical companies even though they would prefer not to, according to a JAMA media press release.

The study, published in the Feb. 22 Archives of Internal Medicine, found that of the 236 program directors who responded to the survey:
72% believe that pharmaceutical support is undesirable
55.9% report accepting pharmaceutical industry support for food for conferences (90.9%), educational materials (83.3%), office supplies (68.9%), and drug samples (57.6%)
50% report that the final decision to accept industry support rested with them, whereas the other half named another final decisionmaker, such as a hospital administrator, chair of medicine, or institutional oversight committee.

Read more about the study from the Archives of Internal Medicine.



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