Etyczne uregulowania kontaktow studentow medycyny z firmami farmaceutycznymi w Stanach Zjednoczonych/Ethical Regulation of Medical Students’ Interactions with the Pharmaceutical Industry in the United States

Marta Makowska ()
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Marta Makowska: Warsaw University of Life Sciences

Annales. Ethics in Economic Life, 2014, vol. 17, issue 3, 125-137

Abstract: The involvement of the pharmaceutical industry in medical education can be seen as something completely natural. Who better than the producer of the medicine would know how the drug was developed, how the process of it being authorized for sale proceeded, and what the side effects of it are? Today in the United States, more and more colleges are implementing strong pharmaceutical conflict-ofinterest policies. Interaction between students and medical school staff with these companies is undesirable, because they share marketing materials more often than honest data, and their representatives use various ways to influence these current and future physicians during their meetings. This article will describe research which shows what pharmaceutical marketing directed at students looks like in the USA – its character, frequency, and potential impact on future medical decisions. Also, ways of regulating interaction between medical schools, their staff and students and the pharmaceutical industry will be expressed. Guidelines of the Association of American Medical Colleges, the Institute of Medicine and the American Medical Student Association will be described. At the end, questions about their influence on reality and whether medical schools’ policies can be an effective barrier for pharmaceutical marketing on medical schools will be asked.

Keywords: pharmaceutical industry; medical education; conflict-of-intrest policies; business ethics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I10 M14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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