Category: CME

JGrimes
“Physicians shall accept no gifts from any provider of products that they prescribe to their patients,” the Wisconsin Medical Society recently decreed.
The policy even spells out specific bans on some of the common gifts docs get from drug companies: “personal items, office supplies, food, travel and time costs,” as well as payment for […]

JGrimes
The drug and device industries spend more than a billion dollars a year funding continuing medical education (CME) for doctors and other health-care providers. But amid wariness over the industries’ influence on the content, some hospitals are trying to wean themselves from that money and see if they can run educational programs on […]