The Relationship between Commercial Support and Bias in Continuing Medical Education Activities: A Review of the Literature

The ACCME commissioned and has just released this literature review:
Cervero RM, Jiang H. The Relationship between Commercial Support and Bias in Continuing Medical Education Activities: A Review of the Literature. Accreditation Council on Continuing Medical Education, June 2008.
Background and Purpose (excerpt) : As the foundations for modern approaches to medical education were being built in [...]

How physicians learn and how to design learning experiences for them (Moore)

This chapter is from the final report of Continuing Education in the Health Professions: Improving Healthcare Through Lifelong Learning, the Macy Foundation report on continuing health education.
Moore DE Jr. How physicians learn and how to design learning experiences for them. From: Continuing Education in the Health Professions: Improving Healthcare Through Lifelong Learning. New York: Josiah [...]

Continuing Education in the Health Professions: Improving Healthcare Through Lifelong Learning (Macy Foundation) - the monograph

The final report is available as of May 16, 2008:
Continuing Education in the Health Professions: Improving Healthcare Through Lifelong Learning. A Conference Sponsored by the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation. Chaired by Suzanne W. Fletcher, M.D., M.Sc. Bermuda,  November 2007. Edited by Mary Hager, Sue Russell, and Suzanne W. Fletcher, M.D., M.Sc. New York: Josiah Macy, [...]

Report of the AAMC Task Force on Industry Funding of Medical Education

  The Task Force on Industry Funding of Medical Education has issued its final report for consideration in June by the AAMC Executive Council. The task force included institutional leaders; faculty; residents; students from the AAMC governance; CEOs from the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device industries; ethicists; and public representatives. It was funded by the [...]

Soft targets: nurses and the pharmaceutical industry

This article was just published in PLoS Medicine [Open Access]:
Jutel A, Menkes DB. Soft targets: nurses and the pharmaceutical industry. PLoS Medicine 2008; 5(2):e5.  PDF
Excerpt: [The prescription pharmaceutical] industry has been robustly critiqued in the medical literature for exploiting patients and doctors using a range of techniques: direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA), sponsored teaching materials, advertising in [...]

Continuing Education in the Health Professions: Improving Healthcare Through Lifelong Learning (Macy Foundation)

   In November 2007 the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation convened a conference to address complex issues concerning continuing education in the health professions. Participants developed the set of conclusions and recommendations found at the end of this Executive Summary:
Chairman’s Summary of the Conference on Continuing Education in the Health Professions: Improving Healthcare through Lifelong Learning
Proceedings [...]

Pharmaceutical education: gifts from industry and lifelong learning

   From the August 15, 2007 issue of the American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education [Open Access]:
Hanson AL, Bruskiewitz RH, DeMuth JE. Pharmacists’ perceptions of facilitators and barriers to lifelong learning. Am J Pharm Educ 2007; 71(4):67.
OBJECTIVES: To reevaluate facilitators of and barriers to pharmacists’ participation in lifelong learning previously examined in a 1990 study.
METHODS: A [...]

Institutional academic-industry relationships

  From the October 17, 2007 issue of JAMA:
Campbell EG, Weissman JS, Ehringhaus S, Rao SR, Moy B, Feibelmann S et al. Institutional academic-industry relationships. JAMA 2007; 298(15):1779-1786.
Context: Institutional academic-industry relationships have the potential of creating institutional conflicts of interest. To date there are no empirical data to support the establishment and evaluation of institutional [...]

SiCKO — a few good links

   A ton of stuff has been written about Michael Moore’s film, and I’m not going to add to the commentary. You can search Google or Google News or Google Blog Search to locate as much as you can possibly read about SiCKO. But I do want to share a few links with you that [...]

Managing conflict of interest in clinical practice

 From the May 2007 issue of the Mayo Clinic Proceedings [free full text available]:
Camilleri M, Cortese DA. Managing conflict of interest in clinical practice [commentary]. Mayo Clin Proc 2007; 82(5):607-614.
Excerpt: Conflict of interest, even the appearance of potential conflict, has long been a concern for physicians and scientists. Conflict of interest arises when an activity [...]