Conflict of Interest Policies at French Medical Schools: Starting from the Bottom.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Medical faculties have a role in ensuring that their students are protected from undue commercial influence during their training, and are educated about professional-industry interactions. In North America, many medical faculties have introduced more stringent conflict of interest (COI) policies during the last decade. We asked whether similar steps had been taken in France. We hypothesized that such policies may have been introduced following a 2009-2010 drug safety scandal (benfluorex, Mediator) in which COIs in medicine received prominent press attention.

Methods

We searched the websites of all 37 French Faculties of Medicine in May 2015 for COI policies and curriculum, using standardized keyword searches. We also surveyed all deans of medicine on institutiona

SUBMITTER: Scheffer P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5221756 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature