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

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

Module 1: Overview of Ethical, Professional, and Legal Issues for Physicians' Relationships with Industry.
Produced by American Medical Association, 2003.

This module introduces general concepts related to professionalism, ethics and laws that pertain to interactions between physicians and industry.

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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: Professionalism, Commerce and Conflicts
An introduction to general concepts related to professionalism, ethics and the laws that pertain to physician-industry relations.

Topic 2: Relevant Laws
Look at how various distinct and overlapping legal factors influence interactions between physicians and industry.

Topic 3: Consulting
An analysis of common types of consulting interactions between physicians and industry from legal & regulatory perspectives.

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:

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

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.

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

Topic 1: Professionalism, commerce, and conflicts

Topic 2: Relevant laws

Topic 3: Consulting