Cooper Medical School of Rowan University | ||
City: Camden | State: NJ | |
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Updates: This institution's COI policies were evaluated on May-26-2014. This institution has indicated their policies have not changed since they were evaluated for 2014 Scorecard. |
Gifts | No industry-funded gifts of any nature or value allowed. [Domain Location: Policy 3, p 8] |
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Meals | No industry-funded meals of any nature or value allowed except in the case of industry-funded ACCME-accredited CME. [Domain Location: Policy 3, p 8; Policy 7, p 2-3] |
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Industry-funded promotional speaking relationships (not ACCME-accredited) | If a talk is funded by industry, the content must be determined by the speaker and not the company, and the talk must be educational and not promotional in content. [Domain Location: Policy 6, p 2-4] |
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Industry-support of ACCME-accredited CME | All agreements for Industry support must be negotiated through and executed by the Rowan SOM Director of Continuing Medical Education (CME) and must comply with all policies for such agreements. [Domain Location: Policy 6, p 2] |
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Attendance of industry-sponsored promotional events | Attendance allowed (without any statement discouraging attendance) but attendees cannot accept industry reimbursement for travel or other remuneration. [Domain Location: Policy 6, p 2] |
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Industry-supported scholarships and awards | Industry may provide scholarships for meeting attendance, but it may not participate in the selection of attendees. [Domain Location: Policy 6, p 4] |
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Ghostwriting and honorary authorships | Ghostwriting and honorary authorship are strictly prohibited. [Domain Location: Policy 6, p 4] |
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Consulting and advising relationships | 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. [Domain Location: Policy 6, p 3] |
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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 6, p 5] |
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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 6, p 5] |
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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. There is no requirement for disclosure to stude [Domain Location: Policy 1, 2-10] |
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COI curriculum | There is a required COI curriculum though no materials were provided for analysis. There is a mandatory course on COI for researchers. [Domain Location: Policy 4, p 10] |
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Extension of COI policies to community affiliates | All faculty, employees, and trainees are subject to the institution's COI policies, but the policy documents do not specify that the COI policies also cover them in all instances, locations, or whereabouts. [Domain Location: Policy 1, p 2; Policy 3, p 2; Policy 6, p 1] |
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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 1, p 9; Policy 3, p 2,9; Policy 6, p 5] |
Model policy | |
Good progress toward model policy | |
No policy, or policy unlikely to have a substantial effect on behavior |