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Albany Medical College | |
| City: Albany | State: NY | |
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Updates: This institution's COI policies were evaluated on Jun-18-2014. This institution has indicated their policies have not changed since they were evaluated for 2014 Scorecard. |
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| Gifts |  |
The policy prohibits accepting gifts from vendors or their representatives. [Domain Location: Policy 1, p3] |
| Meals |  |
The policy does not directly discuss meals, but these can reasonably be considered part of their gifts policy; these are prohibited except for modest meals as part of unrestricted grants for CME. [Domain Location: Policy 1, p3,14] |
| Industry-funded promotional speaking relationships (not ACCME-accredited) |  |
The policy states that for educational events, the individual and their manager are responsible for the program content being primarily educational in value; however, this does not necessarily broadly apply to all external activities such as speakers bure [Domain Location: Policy 1, p14] |
| Industry-support of ACCME-accredited CME | |
The policy states that vendor support for CME is accepted by general grant through a centralized fund. [Domain Location: Policy 1, p13-14] |
| Attendance of industry-sponsored promotional events | |
The policy prohibits earmarking industry off-site education funds for particular individuals, but it is unclear if individuals may accept payment for attendance. [Domain Location: Policy 1, p14] |
| Industry-supported scholarships and awards | |
The policy does not differentiate between staff and trainees, but does prohibit earmarking industry funds for off-site education to individuals, indicating that industry has no role in selecting recipients. [Domain Location: Policy 1, p14] |
| Ghostwriting and honorary authorships | |
No policy provided. [Domain Location: No policy] |
| Consulting and advising relationships | |
The policy states that only consulting agreements with an identified conflict of commitment are subject to pre-approval and monitoring. Relationships related to educational events must be described in a contract but there is no evidence that this requirem [Domain Location: Policy 1, p14] |
| Access of pharmaceutical sales representatives | |
The policy allows vendor representatives by appointment only and in non-patient care areas only. [Domain Location: Policy 1, p16-17] |
| Access of medical device representatives | |
The policy states that trained technical representatives are allowed in patient care areas for delivering care only. [Domain Location: Policy 1, p16] |
| Conflict of interest disclosure | |
The policy requires selected individuals to disclose COI events or relationships, generally with a value of >$1000. The policy also requires disclosure of all educational presenters' COIs to audiences. [Domain Location: Policy 1, p14] |
| COI curriculum | |
The submission sheet for the university details a COI curriculum required for all students which covers most of the AMSA model curriculum. [Domain Location: Submission sheet] |
| Extension of COI policies to community affiliates | |
The policy applies to all individuals at the institution in all of their affiliated institutions. [Domain Location: Policy 1, p6-7] |
| Enforcement and Sanctions of Policies | |
The policy identifies a party responsible for enforcement and the existence of sanctions for noncompliance. [Domain Location: Policy 1, p3-4] |
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| Model policy |
| Good progress toward model policy |
| No policy, or policy unlikely to have a substantial effect on behavior |
