Financial Conflicts of Interest in Academic Medicine
Report of the AAMC Task Force on Industry Funding of Medical Education to the AAMC Executive Council
The final report of the AAMC Task Force on Industry Funding of Medical Education examines the benefits and pitfalls associated with industry funding of medical education, and offers principles, recommendations, and guidelines to assist members in refashioning industry relationships to better conform to high standards of medical professionalism.
Protecting Patients, Preserving Integrity, Advancing Health: Accelerating the Implementation of COI Policies in Human Subjects Research (PDF)
This report, issued February 2008 by the AAMC and the Association of American Universities, calls on all medical schools and major research universities to develop and implement institutional COI policies within the next two years, and to refine standards for addressing individual financial COI.
AAMC Symposium on the Scientific Basis of Influence and Reciprocity
At the AAMC Symposium on the Scientific Basis of Influence and Reciprocity in June 2007, experts discussed emerging neurobiological and psychosocial evidence demonstrating the effects of gifts, favors, and reciprocal relationships on human choices and behaviors.
U.S. Medical School Policies on Individual Financial Conflicts of Interest: Results of an AAMC Survey
U.S. medical schools have made significant progress since 2001 in clarifying and strengthening their financial conflicts of interest standards in clinical research; 95 percent now have a policy in place that applies to all human subjects research. This is among the findings of an AAMC survey on COI trends. Other findings and four charts summarizing survey results are available:
Protecting Subjects, Preserving Trust, Promoting Progress II: Principles and Recommendations for Oversight of an Institution's Financial Interests in Human Subjects Research (PDF)
This second report of the AAMC Task Force offers a conceptual framework for assessing institutional
conflicts of interest and a set of specific recommendations for
the oversight of certain financial interest in human subjects research.
The guidelines highlight areas that, in the view of the AAMC's Task
Force, are especially problematic and must therefore receive close
scrutiny.
Protecting Subjects, Preserving Trust, Promoting Progress: Policy and Guidelines for the Oversight of Individual Financial Interests in Human Subjects Research (PDF)
This first report of the AAMC Task Force on Financial Conflicts
of Interest in Clinical Research provides guidance related to individual
financial interests in human subjects research.
The report was approved by the AAMC Executive Council Dec.
14, 2001, and has been endorsed by 26 of the 28 members of the Task
Force. One member, Hedrick Smith, withdrew his name because he was
unable to participate in the drafting of the report due to unexpected
professional commitments arising from the September 11th attacks.
Susan Hellmann, M.D.,
Chief Medical Officer for Genentech, declined her endorsement due
primarily to her concern that the recommendations present an impediment
to research innovation.
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