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Posted on Thursday 16 December 2010

With all of this gloomy talk of ghost-writing and pharmaceutical industry influence in academic medicine and continuing medical education, there’s a counterpoint that is extremely positive. Propublica has an Internet site where you can see the amounts being paid to any physician by the pharmaceutical companies. Right now there are seven companies represented, but by 2013 all of them will have to make this information avaliable. Many Medical Schools are developing sites to make these conflicts of interest transparent for their faculties – for example, the University of Miami Site.

 

And I think this next one is terrific from the American Medical Student Association. They now grade the Medical Schools on their policies concerning industry involvement at their schools. I’ve posted an abbreviated version below. The full scorecard is here [Medical Students represent medicine’s future]. And finally, there are a number of blogs that track matters pharmaceutical: Healthcare Renewal, Pharmalot, the Carlat Psychiatry blog, PharmedOut, POGO, Soulful Sepulcher, Furious Seasons, and many more. The  pharmaceutical invasion of academic medicine seems to be moving out from under the rocks into the light of day at last…

What the results mean…
Model policy
Good progress toward model policy
No policy, or policy unlikely to have an effect
Did not report
Policy not relevant to this institution

  A
South Dakota A
Mount Sinai A
Mayo A
Iowa A
Pittsburgh A
Emory A
Miami A
Pennsylvania A
Texas Galveston A
Des Moines Osteopathic A
UC Davis A
UC San Francisco A
UCLA A
Tufts A
Stanford A
USC A
Johns Hopkins A
Georgetown A
Maryland A
Dartmouth B
Virginia Commonwealth B
University of Kentucky B
Brown B
University of Florida B
University of Colorado Denver B
Central Florida B
University of Michigan B
Albert Einstein B
Ohio State B
University of Kansas B
Chicago Medical School B
Wake Forest B
Boston University B
UC San Diego B
UC Irvine B
Washington University B
Pennsylvania State B
University of Washington B
Baylor B
Jefferson B
University of Utah B
Vanderbilt B
New York University B
University of Nevada B
University of Illinois B
University of Texas San Antonio B
Rush Medical College B
Harvard B
SUNY Upstate B
Loyola B
University of South Carolina B
Albany B
University of North Carolina B
University of Arkansas B
University of Chicago B
University of Virginia B
Medical College of Georgia B
Louisiana State University B
University of Texas Southwestern B
New York Medical College B
Ponce School of Medicine B
Texas Tech B
Duke University B
Medical College of Wisconsin B
Loma Linda B
University of Minnesota B
Bethesda B
New Jersey B
East Tennessee State University B
University of Missouri B
Case Western Reserve B
University of Mississippi B
Temple B
University of Vermont B
University of New Mexico B
University of Louisville B
Florida State B
Oregon School of Medicine B
Yale B
University of Oklahoma C
Northeastern Ohio C
University of Missouri Kansas City C
Drexel University C
University of Alabama C
University of Wisconsin C
Wright State C
New Jersey  Newark C
New England Osteopathic C
Touro Osteopathic C
Mercer University C
University of Rochester C
Northwestern C
University of Nebraska C
West Virginia University C
University of South Florida C
Touro Osteopathic California C
Nova Southeastern Osteopathic C
University of Toledo C
New Jersey Osteopathic C
University of Cincinnati C
Meharry C
Texas A&M C
Columbia C
Ohio University Osteopathic D
Kansas City Osteopathic D
Michigan State University D
University of North Dakota D
Wayne State D
Indiana University D
University at Buffalo D
Eastern Virginia D
Edward Via Virginia Osteopathic D
Philadelphia Osteopathic D
The Brody School of Medicine D
Michigan State D
Stony Brook D
Creighton D
Pikeville Osteopathic D
Cornell D
George Washington D
SUNY Downstate D
University of Connecticu F
University of South Alabama F
DeBusk Osteopathic F
Rocky Vista Osteopathic F
University of Arizona F
San Juan Bautista F
University of Texas Houston F
University of Puerto Rico F
University of Tennessee F
West Virginia Medicine F
Louisiana State University F
A.T. Still University Osteopathic F
University of South Carolina F
Oklahoma State University F
Pacific Osteopathic F
Lake Erie F
New York Osteopathic F
Pacific Northwes Osteopathic F
Tulane F
Universidad Central del Caribe F
Chicago Osteopathic F
Arizona Medicine F
Morehouse School of Medicine F
Saint Louis University F
Howard University F
University of Massachusetts
Southern Illinois
University of North Texas
University of Hawai’i
Marshall

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