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Revista Brasileira de Educação Médica
versión impresa ISSN 0100-5502versión On-line ISSN 1981-5271
Resumen
DOMINGOS NETO, José; BAJERL, João Alexandre Hool y SERODIO, Aluisio. Conflicts of Interest at Continuing Medical Education Events: What do Speakers and Listeners Believe must be Declared?. Rev. Bras. Educ. Med. [online]. 2016, vol.40, n.3, pp.374-382. ISSN 1981-5271. https://doi.org/10.1590/1981-52712015v40n3e00852015.
Introduction
Pharmaceutical companies are the main source of therapeutic innovations in medicine, thus playing an important role in continuing medical education (CME).
Objectives
To study physicians’thoughts on conflicts of interests at CME events.
Methodology
Physiciansworkingat a Brazilian public university responded to a questionnaire featuring open and closed questions, with qualitative data studied according to a content analysis and quantitative data subjected to a proper statistical analysis.
Results
76 physicians answered the questionnaire, with 55.3% considering conflicts of interests to constitute‘situations’ and 44.7% seeingthem as a form of‘behavior’. Besides financial support for research related to the presentations, the majority of participants pointed to six other kinds of industry/speaker relationship in which a declaration should be mandatory. Only 50% of speakers and 18% of listeners feel prepared to deal with pharmaceutical companies’ issues.
Final considerations
Medical schools and medical representative entities should work toward improving physicians’ understanding of this issue and creating objective rules on what must be declared.
Palabras clave : Medical Ethics; Conflicts of Interest; Continuing Medical Education; Medical Education.