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University of Virginia School of Medicine | |
| City: Charlottesville | State: VA | |
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Updates: This institution's COI policies were evaluated on Jun- 9-2014. This institution's policies were found via online web searches for the 2016 Scorecard. They were last updated prior to their review for the 2014 Scorecard. |
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| Gifts |  |
No industry-funded gifts of any nature or value allowed. [Domain Location: Policy 11, p 14] |
| Meals |  |
No industry-funded meals of any nature or value allowed except in the case of industry-funded events (on or off-site). [Domain Location: Policy 11, p 14] |
| Industry-funded promotional speaking relationships (not ACCME-accredited) | |
Policy effectively prevents faculty from being paid by industry to do promotional speaking, or to be on industry-funded speakers bureaus. [Domain Location: Policy 6, p 6-7] |
| Industry-support of ACCME-accredited CME | |
Industry funding for CME is accepted and funding must be received and disbursed by the CME/GME office. [Domain Location: Policy 13, p 3] |
| Attendance of industry-sponsored promotional events | |
Faculty or trainees may not 'solicit or accept gifts or compensation, of any kind and regardless of value, for simply attending a GME, CME, or other educational or instructional event or activity, whether on site or off site.' [Domain Location: Policy 13, p 2] |
| Industry-supported scholarships and awards |  |
No policy provided [Domain Location: No policy found] |
| Ghostwriting and honorary authorships | |
Ghostwriting and honorary authorship are strictly prohibited. [Domain Location: Policy 1, p 2] |
| Consulting and advising relationships | |
Consulting or advising relationships are allowed, but policy prohibits those that are purely commercial or marketing purposes. Safeguards are also in place to clarify the relationship as legitimate employment, including prior approval and services must [Domain Location: Policy 6, p 2, 5; Policy 8, p 1-2] |
| Access of pharmaceutical sales representatives | |
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. [Domain Location: Policy 12, p 1-2] |
| Access of medical device representatives | |
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. [Domain Location: Policy 12, p 2-4] |
| Conflict of interest disclosure | |
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. The online student handbook provides students w [Domain Location: Policy 4, p 2-5; Policy 6, p 2, 8; Email Communication] |
| COI curriculum | |
The medical school has a required COI curriculum and it adequately covers core content areas of the AMSA Model COI Curriculum. [Domain Location: Policy 2, p 1-2, 4-10; Policy 11, p 1] |
| Extension of COI policies to community affiliates | |
It is not clear if there is a specific, over-arching policy statement that describes the scope of the COI policies, but from a few different documents it appears that all faculty and trainees are covered by the policies. However, there is not a special di [Domain Location: Policy 1, p 1; Policy 6, p 1; Policy 9, p 1; ] |
| Enforcement and Sanctions of Policies | |
There is a party responsible for general oversight to ensure compliance with COI policies and there are sanctions for noncompliance. [Domain Location: Policy 4, p 5] |
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| Model policy |
| Good progress toward model policy |
| No policy, or policy unlikely to have a substantial effect on behavior |
