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Industry Sponsorship of Continuing Medical Education
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To the Editor: In his Commentary on the influence of the drug industry on continuing medical education (CME), Dr Relman1 argued that industry-sponsored medical education and communication companies (MECCs) exist solely for commercial purposes.
We disagree, and find nothing in his commentary to support that conclusion. To quote Relman, we believe that "in the absence of evidence to support that assumption, it is an insult to our nation's leading medical professionals" and to the professionals employed by MECCs to dismiss the value of MECC-produced CME on the basis of innuendo.
Among the almost 700 entities accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) are medical schools, government or military organizations, physician societies, and 94 organizations identified as MECCs. All of these groups carry the same rights and responsibilities implied by the accreditation badge that they earn. There are no different levels of accreditation.
Furthermore, not all industry support . . . [Full Text of this Article]
Kurt J. Boyce;
Jacqueline Parochka, EdD;
Karen Overstreet, EdD
for the Board of Directors of the North American Association of Medical Education and Communication Companies
Mt Airy, Md
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