No industry-funded gifts of any nature or value allowed

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

If a talk is funded by industry, the content must be determined by the speaker and not the company, and the content must 'promote objective scientific and educational activities and discourse.'

The Office of Continuing Medical Education administers all accredited CME activities to ensure compliance with ACCME standards.

Faculty, staff, students, and trainees are strongly encouraged to avoid attending or speaking at meetings and conferences that are organized, underwritten, or presented by commercial interests.

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

Covered persons are prohibited from having publications ghostwritten by any party, industry or otherwise.

Consulting relationships are allowed. Requires disclosure and monitoring and a management plan will be developed.

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 supervisors. Interactions with faculty must be limited to in-service training or assistance on devices and equipment

Disclosure of COIs to the university is required and described across multiple policy documents.

A course on medical professionalism is required, but it is not clear if it discusses effects of industry marketing on physicians.

Policies apply both on and off-site. However, covered persons for each policy document are not clearly defined.

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