Features
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2011 PharmFree Initatives
AMSA calls on medical schools and academic medical centers to implement curricula and policies that prepare students to interact with industry in a way that protects individual patients, promotes public health, and preserves the public trust in medicine.
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Pharm-Free Family Medicine Residency Survery
A collaboration between AMSA's PharmFree Campaign and Georgetown University Medical Center's PharmedOut
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National PharmFree Week
Medical students from across the country celebrated National PharmFree Week Nov 14-18, 2011. Find out more.
- November 23, 2011 | from Medicines Sans Frontiers Access to HIV treatment must speed up to match political promises The latest UNAIDS treatment numbers show progress, but funding crunch is major threat.
- November 09, 2011 | from JAMA Conflict of Interest Disclosure in Early Education of Medical Students Medical education has embraced the transparency movement by shining the light of disclosure on physician-industry interactions. However, disclosure has not yet trickled down to the very start of medical education. Are first- and second-year students justified in expecting conflicts of interest disclosure in their education?
- November 09, 2011 | from Postscript Where's the Sunshine? October is when HHS was supposed to issue rules implementing the Physician Payment Sunshine provisions of health reform. Senators Grassley and Kohl have been urging HHS to issue regulations as quickly as possible but they have not been answered.
AMSA Policy Change Campaign
