Module 1: Overview of Ethical, Professional, and Legal Issues for Physicians' Relationships with Industry

The resource material on this page is intended for instructors who wish to present Module 1 of the American Medical Association's What You Should Know About Gifts to Physicians From Industry to a group. This module introduces general concepts related to professionalism, ethics and laws that pertain to interactions between physicians and industry.

Instructions
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Compressed version (ZIP, 449KB)

Uncompressed version:
Presenter's guide (PDF, 198KB)
Participant's handout (PDF, 283KB)
PowerPoint presentation (219KB)

Instructions:

This module is available both in a compressed (zipped) format and as individual, uncompressed documents:

• AMA_M1_PG.pdf (a presenter's guide)
• AMA_M1_PH.pdf (participant's handout package material)
• AMA_M1.ppt (the PowerPoint® slide show in PowerPoint 97 or later)

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The presenter's guide contains complete instructions to help you deliver a successful and effective presentation with a minimum of preparation time. Reading it in its entirety will ensure that presenting any of the four modules in the American Medical Association's What You Should Know About Gifts to Physicians From Industry will be an enjoyable and rewarding experience for both you and your attendees.

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Authors:
Karine Morin, LLM
Jacqueline M. Darrah, JD, MA

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.

Jacqueline M. Darrah, JD, MA is Division Counsel at the American Medical Association. Her responsibilities concern regulatory matters and supporting federal and state advocacy efforts. Prior to the AMA, she served as the Associate General Counsel at Northwestern Memorial Corporation in Chicago. As an attorney at Gardner, Carton and Douglas, Jackie was involved in many transactions on behalf of physicians and hospitals. Jackie also has health care administration experience from Northwestern Memorial Hospital and the University of Chicago Hospitals. She received her law degree from Loyola College of Law in Chicago, her Master's in Health Care Administration from the University of Illinois and her Bachelor's degree from the University of Illinois.

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. Produced 2003.

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.