The Medical Profession, Industry, and Continuing Medical Education: Finding the Balance That ’s Right for Patients
Provision and participation in formal external continuing medical education (CME) is costly. Employer or state support of CME is the exception rather than the rule. The medical industry has supported both providers and consumers of educational activities, leading to concerns of commercial bias. Recent medical industry initiatives in Europe to improve the transparency of the relationship between industry and the profession, including the field of medical education, have had the paradoxical effect of the industry playing an increasingly direct role in the provision of physician education.
Source: The American Journal of Medicine - Category: General Medicine Authors: Peter Kearney, Maarten Simoons, Lars Ryden, Paulus Kirchhof, Axel Pries, Colm O'Morain, Jeroen J. Bax Tags: Review Source Type: research