Morehouse School of Medicine | ||
City: Atlanta | State: GA | |
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Updates: This institution's COI policies were evaluated on Jun-23-2014. 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: 3, p3] |
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Meals | No industry-funded meals of any nature or value allowed except in the context of industry funded ACCME-accredited CME. [Domain Location: 3, p3] |
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Industry-funded promotional speaking relationships (not ACCME-accredited) | The policy effectively prevents faculty from being paid by industry to do promotional speaking, or to be on industry-funded speakers bureaus: 'all lecture content is determined by the MSM speaker and reflects a balanced assessment of the current scienc [Domain Location: 3, p8, p9] |
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Industry-support of ACCME-accredited CME | All agreements for industry support of CME programs must be negotiated through and executed by the Continuing Medical Education Department. In addition, the Office of Compliance and Internal Audit reviews any industry support for CME exceeding $10,000 in [Domain Location: 3, p7] |
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Attendance of industry-sponsored promotional events | Attendance is allowed but attendees cannot accept industry reimbursement for travel or other remuneration. [Domain Location: 3, p8] |
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Industry-supported scholarships and awards | Industry may provide scholarships to students and trainees for meeting attendance, but it may not participate in the selection of attendees, and all funds must be provided to the university and not directly to the trainee [Domain Location: 3, p8] |
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Ghostwriting and honorary authorships | Ghostwriting and honorary authorship are strictly prohibited. [Domain Location: 3, p9] |
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Consulting and advising relationships | Consulting arrangements must include fair market compensation for specific services where compensation reflects time and effort and where expected work products are defined in advance in a written contract. [Domain Location: 3, p3] |
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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: 3, p7] |
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Access of medical device representatives | a. 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 equipm [Domain Location: 3,p6] |
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Conflict of interest disclosure | Only internal disclosure is required. [Domain Location: 2, p13] |
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COI curriculum | No policy provided [Domain Location: ] |
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Extension of COI policies to community affiliates | No policy provided [Domain Location: ] |
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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: 3, p10] |
Model policy | |
Good progress toward model policy | |
No policy, or policy unlikely to have a substantial effect on behavior |