Initiatives in Medical Research
Industry Funding of Medical Education: Report of an AAMC Task Force
This report by the Task Force on Industry Funding of Medical Education urges medical schools and teaching hospitals to adopt policies that prohibit drug industry gifts and services to physicians, faculty, residents, and students, and to curtail the involvement of industry in continuing medical education activities.
Protecting Patients, Preserving Integrity, Advancing Health (PDF, 87 pages)
This AAMC report calls on all medical schools and major research universities to develop and implement institutional financial conflicts of interest (COI) policies within the next two years, and to refine standards for addressing individual financial COI.
Principles for Protecting Integrity in the Conduct and Reporting of Clinical Trials
The AAMC adopted these principles to strengthen the role of U.S. medical schools and teaching hospitals as trusted and reliable sources of research information. They are intended to apply to all clinical trials conducted in academic medical institutions.
Overseas
Fellowships in Global Health and Clinical Research
Overseas Fellowships in Global Health and Clinical Research Awards fellowships
for mentored research training at top-ranked NIH-funded research centers
in developing countries to graduate level U.S. health professions students.
Sponsored by NIH's Fogarty International Center (FIC).
International Scholars Span the Globe to Learn by Doing
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, in partnership with the AAMC, is using a National Institutes of Health grant to establish the Fogarty International Center Clinical Research Scholar Program.
AAMC Symposium on the Scientific Basis of Influence and Reciprocity
At the AAMC Symposium on the Scientific Basis of Influence and Reciprocity on June 12, 2007, experts from around the nation discussed emerging neurobiological and psychosocial evidence demonstrating the effects of gifts, favors, and reciprocal relationships on human choices and behaviors.
Compact Between Postdoctoral Appointees and Their Mentors
This compact is intended to initiate discussions about the postdoctoral appointee-mentor relationship and the commitments necessary for a high quality postdoctoral training experience.
Drug
Development Science: Obstacles and Opportunities for Collaboration
Among Academia, Industry and Government
This report produced by the AAMC and the U.S. Food and
Drug Administration examines critical steps necessary to accelerate
drug discovery and development. This report was stimulated by the high "failure rate" for tentative drug candidates.
AAMC-ORI Responsible Conduct of Research Program
Provides funding to academic societies for events and activities that
promote the responsible conduct of research and research integrity. Sponsored
by the DHHS Office of Research Integrity.
Award for Distinguished Research in the Biomedical
Sciences
Honors outstanding biomedical research related to health and disease by
faculty at an AAMC member medical school or teaching hospital.
Fulfilling the Promise
A joint effort between the AAMC and the National Institutes of Health, "Fulfilling the Promise" highlights the biomedical research collaboration between the NIH and academic medicine.
Gene Patents: Legal and Economic Issues
A special issue of Academic Medicine focuses on the ongoing debate
over the application of U.S. patent law in genetic research. Funded in
part by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
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