The American Medical Association's Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs has released a new report, 1-A-09 Financial Relationships with Industry in Continuing Medical Education, to be introduced at the AMA's Annual House of Delegates meeting in June. The report can be accessed on the AMA's website here.
The report differs dramatically from the one issued last year, most notably by eliminating the recommendation to ban industry support of CME completely. Instead, this report makes a distinction between what is ethically preferable, permissible and prohibited.
It is ethically preferable that:
"CME providers accept funding only form sources that have no direct finacncial interest in a physician's clinical recommendations and that that those involved in CME have no current, recent or potential direct financial interest in the subject matter and are not currently/have not recently been involved in a compensated relationship with a commercial interest in the educational subject matter."
However, the council recognizes "... that this ethical ideal cannot feasibly be implemented for all professional education". In certain situations, interaction with persons or organizations with a conflict can be ethically permissible. These situations include:
If none of these conditions are met the financial relationship would be deemed ethically prohibited.
It is clear that great time and effort was put into this report (Over 35 references, plus a supplemental report) and the council did take the concerns of stakeholders into consideration
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