No industry-funded gifts of any nature or value allowed.

No industry-funded meals of any nature or value allowed except in the case of industry-funded ACCME-accredited CME.

Policy effectively prevents faculty from being paid by industry to do promotional speaking, or to be on industry-funded speakers bureaus.

The policy allows industry-support of CME with central management of the funding.

Attendance allowed (without any statement discouraging attendance) but attendees cannot accept industry reimbursement for travel or other remuneration.

Industry may provide scholarships for meeting attendance, but it may not participate in the selection of attendees.

Ghostwriting and honorary authorship are strictly prohibited.

All consulting and advising relationships are allowed but there are safeguards in place to clarify the relationship as legitimate employment, including prior approval by a supervisor and clear employment deliverables.

Pharmaceutical representatives are allowed to meet with faculty but the meetings must take place only in non-patient care areas and the meetings must take place by appointment only.

This policy effectively prohibits medical device representatives from promoting products in patient care areas though they may be there for legitimate educational purposes unrelated to marketing.

Disclosure of financial relationships that constitute a COI is required both internally to the institution and externally to trainees/audiences during presentations.

There is a required COI curriculum though no materials were provided for analysis. Apparently there are a minimum of three hours devoted exclusively to the subject of COIs in medicine, so it is likely that Tufts is deserving of a top score for this domain

This policy applies to all employees of the institution, whether full/part-time or volunteer faculty, and trainees, and it applies to them regardless of the site they are working at.

There is a party responsible for general oversight to ensure compliance with COI policies and there are sanctions for noncompliance.