Module 4: American Medical Association Ethical Guidelines on Gifts to Physicians from Industry

Release date: March 30, 2004
Renewal date: January 30, 2007
Expiration date: January 30, 2009

Module 4:

American Medical Association Ethical Guidelines on Gifts to Physicians from Industry.
Produced by American Medical Association, 2003.

This module explores physician-industry relations, along with the AMA's Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs and the AMA Code of Medical Ethics.

Accreditation/designation statements
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To receive a certificate of credit for this module, you must explore the entire module and successfully complete the test at the end of the module.

This module includes three topics:

Topic 1: Gifts, Medical Ethics, and Professionalism
An analysis of physician-industry relations in light of concepts introduced in previous modules and other basic principles of medical ethics.

Topic 2: The AMA's Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs
Introduction to the AMA's Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs and its policy-making process.

Topic 3: AMA's Opinion 8.061: Gifts to Physicians from Industry and other related ethical guidance from the Code of Medical Ethics
A look at specific ethical Opinions from the AMA Code of Medical Ethics regarding physician-industry relations.

Accreditation/Designation Statements

The American Medical Association is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The American Medical Association designates this activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit^TM. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Disclosure of Conflict of Interest:

There are no relevant financial relationships to disclose. The following information is provided about the authors:

Author:
Karine Morin, LLM

Karine Morin, LLM joined the AMA's Ethics Standards Group in August 1999 and became secretary of the Council of Ethical and Judicial Affairs in 2000. Ms. Morin was promoted to Director of Ethics Policy in April 2002. She is a graduate of McGill University School of Law in Montreal, Canada. She also received a Masters in Law (LLM) from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. She worked at the American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine in Philadelphia as the Ethics and Health Policy Associate, was adjunct faculty at the Allegheny University of the Health Sciences in the fall of 1997 and served on the Crozer Keystone Health Systems home care/hospice ethics committee. She is now adjunct faculty at Northwestern University School of Law, where she teaches biomedical ethics.

In collaboration with the Working Group for the Communication of Ethical Guidelines for Gifts to Physicians from Industry and its Educational Advisory Committee chaired by R. Van Harrison, PhD. University of Michigan School of Medicine.

Project Manager: Beverley D. Rowley, Ph.D. Medical Education and Research Associates, Inc. Tempe Arizona

An American Medical Association initiative to increase awareness and support of ethical guidelines

The development and distribution of these materials is made possible through unrestricted educational grants from: American Medical Association, AstraZeneca, Bayer Corporation, Eli Lilly & Co., Glaxo Merck & Company, Pfizer Inc, Pharmacia Corporation, Procter and Gamble Pharmaceuticals, and Wyeth-Ayerst Labs.

Off-Label Usage:

The content of this CME publication does not contain discussion of off-label uses.

Module 4: American Medical Association Ethical Guidelines on Gifts to Physicians from Industry

Topic 1: Gifts, Medical Ethics, and Professionalism

Topic 2: The AMA's Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs

Topic 3: Opinion 8.061 and other related guidance from the Code of Medical Ethics