American Medical Association

Medical students at risk for influence from pharmaceutical companies

Published in Law and Health Weekly, October 1st, 2005

Third-year medical students receive on average one gift or attend one activity sponsored by a pharmaceutical company per week, and most believe that sponsored educational events are likely to be biased, according to an article in the September 7 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), a theme issue on medical education.

Medical students are entering an environment with progressively fewer boundaries between medicine and the pharmaceutical industry, which spends $12 billion to $18 billion annually marketing to physicians (including residents), according to background information in the article. This includes 60 million visits...

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