The Chronicle: Survey Finds Extensive Ties Between Industry and Medical-School Department Chairs
Nearly two-thirds of the department chairs at medical schools and teaching hospitals who participated in a recent survey have financial or other ties to industry that could create institutional conflicts of interest, according to a report being published today in The Journal of the American Medical Association.
Ties between individual faculty members and companies have been closely scrutinized in recent years (The Chronicle, January 25, 2006), but relatively little attention has been paid to institutional conflicts that arise when schools and departments or their senior officers have financial connections with companies.
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