Industry-academic relationships
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
About 60% of department chairs and 67% of departments in a survey of 125 medical schools and the 15 largest independent teaching hospitals in the United States have some form of financial relationship with industry, study authors report in the Oct. 17 Journal of the American Medical Association. More research is needed to better understand the impact of the relationships on medical education and research, Eric Campbell, Ph.D., Massachusetts General Hospital, et al. conclude