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Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania | |
| City: Philadelphia | State: PA | |
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Updates: This institution's COI policies were evaluated on Oct-9-2016. This institution has indicated their policies have not changed since they were evaluated for 2014 Scorecard, with the exception of one domain which was reevaluated. |
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| Gifts |  |
No industry-funded gifts of any nature or value allowed. [Domain Location: Policy 4, pgs. 3-4] |
| Meals |  |
No industry-funded meals of any nature or value allowed except in the case of modest meals provided through educational grants for industry-funded non-CME programs [Domain Location: Policy 3, p 1; Policy 4, p 4] |
| 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 8] |
| Industry-support of ACCME-accredited CME | |
The policy allows industry-support of CME with central management of the funding and educational content. [Domain Location: Policy 3, pgs. 1-2] |
| Attendance of industry-sponsored promotional events | |
Faculty, staff, students, and trainees are prohibited from participating/attending industry-funded marketing activities. [Domain Location: Policy 3, pgs. 2-3] |
| 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 3, p 3] |
| Ghostwriting and honorary authorships | |
Ghostwriting and honorary authorship is prohibited. [Domain Location: Policy 3, pgs. 2-3] |
| Consulting and advising relationships | |
'Faculty members are permitted to consult up to one day per seven day week on outside activities or consulting work, with permission from the Department chair' and at fair market value. While the policy states that staff may not be paid for participating [Domain Location: Policy 3, pgs. 2 and 3; Policy 6, p 3] |
| 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 3, p 2; Policy 4, p 2] |
| Access of medical device representatives | |
Representatives only allowed for clear legitimate reasons not related to marketing. [Domain Location: #1 p2] |
| Conflict of interest disclosure | |
Annual disclosure is required. [Domain Location: Policy 1, p 1; Policy 6, pgs. 2-3; Policy 7] |
| COI curriculum | |
There is a required COI curriculum that includes 'discussion and reflection on managing encounters with Industry representatives' though no materials were provided for analysis. [Domain Location: Policy 3, p 3] |
| 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 3, p 1; Policy 4, p 1] |
| Enforcement and Sanctions of Policies | |
There are parties responsible for oversight of the different policies, and there are no sanctions for noncompliance included. [Domain Location: Policy 3, p 1; Policy 4, p 1; Policy 6, p 6] |
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| Model policy |
| Good progress toward model policy |
 | No policy, or policy unlikely to have a substantial effect on behavior |
