http://www.medrants.com/archives/2432 Internal medicine, American health care, and especially medical education Sat, 11 Feb 2012 15:15:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.medrants.com/archives/2432/comment-page-1#comment-29958 Rob Norton Thu, 07 Jul 2005 13:43:35 +0000 http://medrants.com/archives/2005/07/06/another-company-in-trouble/#comment-29958 Nice post. These stories give me heartburn too. It is correct to say that development of a code to prevent abuse is complicated, but the industry needs to tighten up its grant processes or this important source of educational funding may be sharply curtailed. I posted some of obvious industry policy reforms on my blog. That said, some responsibility for the cleanup must be shared by the frequent beneficiaries of educational grants (physicians, academic institutions, hospitals). Grant requests, whether written or spoken, often come with a tacit, and sometimes not so tacit, commitment to assist promotion of off-label indications. This must end - physicians can help. Nice post. These stories give me heartburn too. It is correct to say that development of a code to prevent abuse is complicated, but the industry needs to tighten up its grant processes or this important source of educational funding may be sharply curtailed. I posted some of obvious industry policy reforms on my blog. That said, some responsibility for the cleanup must be shared by the frequent beneficiaries of educational grants (physicians, academic institutions, hospitals). Grant requests, whether written or spoken, often come with a tacit, and sometimes not so tacit, commitment to assist promotion of off-label indications. This must end – physicians can help.

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