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Questionable content of an industry-supported medical school lecture series: a case study
BACKGROUND: Medical schools are grappling with how best to manage industry involvement in medical education. OBJECTIVE: To describe a case study of industry-supported undergraduate medical education related to opioid analgesics. METHOD: Institutional case study. RESULTS: As part of their regular cur...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4033027/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23760579 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/medethics-2013-101343 |
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description | BACKGROUND: Medical schools are grappling with how best to manage industry involvement in medical education. OBJECTIVE: To describe a case study of industry-supported undergraduate medical education related to opioid analgesics. METHOD: Institutional case study. RESULTS: As part of their regular curriculum, Canadian medical students attended pain pharmacotherapy lectures that contained questionable content about the use of opioids for pain management. The lectures were supported by pharmaceutical companies that market opioid analgesics in Canada and the guest lecturer was a member of speakers bureaus of the same companies. These conflicts of interests were not fully disclosed. A reference book that reinforced some of the information in the lectures and that was paid for by a sponsoring company was made available to students. This is the first report of an association between industry sponsorship and the dissemination of potentially dangerous information to medical students. CONCLUSIONS: This case demonstrates the need for better strategies for preventing, identifying and dealing with problematic interactions between the pharmaceutical industry and undergraduate medical education. These might include the avoidance of unnecessary conflicts of interest, more disclosure of conflicts, an open process for dealing with recognised problems and internationally harmonised conflict of interest policies. |
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spelling | pubmed-40330272014-06-05 Questionable content of an industry-supported medical school lecture series: a case study Persaud, Navindra J Med Ethics Teaching and Learning Ethics BACKGROUND: Medical schools are grappling with how best to manage industry involvement in medical education. OBJECTIVE: To describe a case study of industry-supported undergraduate medical education related to opioid analgesics. METHOD: Institutional case study. RESULTS: As part of their regular curriculum, Canadian medical students attended pain pharmacotherapy lectures that contained questionable content about the use of opioids for pain management. The lectures were supported by pharmaceutical companies that market opioid analgesics in Canada and the guest lecturer was a member of speakers bureaus of the same companies. These conflicts of interests were not fully disclosed. A reference book that reinforced some of the information in the lectures and that was paid for by a sponsoring company was made available to students. This is the first report of an association between industry sponsorship and the dissemination of potentially dangerous information to medical students. CONCLUSIONS: This case demonstrates the need for better strategies for preventing, identifying and dealing with problematic interactions between the pharmaceutical industry and undergraduate medical education. These might include the avoidance of unnecessary conflicts of interest, more disclosure of conflicts, an open process for dealing with recognised problems and internationally harmonised conflict of interest policies. BMJ Publishing Group 2014-06 2013-06-11 /pmc/articles/PMC4033027/ /pubmed/23760579 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/medethics-2013-101343 Text en Published by the BMJ Publishing Group Limited. For permission to use (where not already granted under a licence) please go to http://group.bmj.com/group/rights-licensing/permissions This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 3.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ |
spellingShingle | Teaching and Learning Ethics Persaud, Navindra Questionable content of an industry-supported medical school lecture series: a case study |
title | Questionable content of an industry-supported medical school lecture series: a case study |
title_full | Questionable content of an industry-supported medical school lecture series: a case study |
title_fullStr | Questionable content of an industry-supported medical school lecture series: a case study |
title_full_unstemmed | Questionable content of an industry-supported medical school lecture series: a case study |
title_short | Questionable content of an industry-supported medical school lecture series: a case study |
title_sort | questionable content of an industry-supported medical school lecture series: a case study |
topic | Teaching and Learning Ethics |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4033027/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23760579 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/medethics-2013-101343 |
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