RT Journal
A1 Steinbrook R
T1 FUture directions in industry funding of continuing medical education
JF Archives of Internal Medicine
JO Archives of Internal Medicine
YR 2011
FD February 14
VO 171
IS 3
SP 257
OP 258
DO 10.1001/archinternmed.2010.498
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinternmed.2010.498
AB 
The extent of industry support of continuing medical education (CME) has prompted concern that the medical profession has lost control over its own continuing education.1 In response, some academic medical centers, such as Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, have stopped accepting support for CME from pharmaceutical and medical device companies; others, such as the University of Michigan, are planning to do so. Although the role of industry-sponsored CME remains controversial,2- 4 there are proposals to either ban direct or indirect commercial support of CME or to otherwise reform the funding system.5- 7