No industry-funded gifts of any nature or value allowed. One policy is specific to medical students.

No industry-funded meals of any nature or value allowed on or off-campus except in the case of industry-funded ACCME-accredited CME. The funds must be provided indirectly 'in an appropriate setting consistent with Umass Memorial Policy.'

Policy effectively prevents faculty from being paid by industry to do promotional speaking, or to be on industry-funded speakers bureaus. The policy also states that staff 'may not use, refer to or allow use of their Umass Memorial medical staff appoin

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. The policy makes it clear that such payment can only be provided 'if the employee is leading or present

Industry support to attend conferences or trainings is allowed, but there are one or more safeguards in place to ensure the funds are not used by the company to establish a marketing relationship with the trainee.

Ghostwriting and honorary authorship are strictly prohibited.

Consulting or advising relationships are allowed, but policy prohibits those that are marketing in nature ('restriction to scientific issues versus marketing'). Safeguards are also in place to clarify the relationship as legitimate employment, including a

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.

Access by device manufacturer representatives to patient care areas is permitted by appointment or invitation by faculty members or clinic staff. Interactions with faculty must be limited to in-service training or assistance on devices and equipment.

There is a requirement for research faculty to disclose their financial conflicts of interest, but it is not clear if this is a requirement for all faculty and staff, including those that do not do research. There is also a requirement for disclosure to a

The medical school has a required COI curriculum that adequately covers core content areas of the AMSA Model COI Curriculum including a course during the pre-clinical years on drug development, COI and regulatory issues, FDA approval, prescribing, etc. an

The policy on Faculty and Student Vendor Relations COI Policy applies to medical students and the policy on Vendor Relations for UMass Memorial Medical Center applies to all faculty and employees 'regardless of their responsibilities or their location.'

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