Understanding Physician-Pharmaceutical Industry Interactions

Shaili Jain, MD, attended Liverpool Medical School in England and completed her postgraduate training in the United States. She currently works as a General Adult Psychiatrist with Aurora Behavioral Health Services and is also Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee.

1. Gifts from the pharmaceutical industry to physicians: do they influence prescribing?; 2. Ethical considerations of receiving gifts from the pharmaceutical industry; 3. One on one: an analysis of the physician-pharmaceutical company representative detailing interaction; 4. Medical academia and the pharmaceutical industry; 5. Teaching physicians-in-training about pharmaceutical industry promotion; 6. Continuing medical education: how to separate continuing medical education from pharmaceutical industry promotion; 7. Professional policies on physician-pharmaceutical industry interactions; 8. Preserving professionalism: patients' perceptions of physicians' acceptance of gifts from the pharmaceutical industry; 9. To sample or not to sample? The use of pharmaceutical industry-supplied medications in medical practice; 10. Physician-pharmaceutical industry interactions, the law, and the media; 11. Direct to consumer advertising; 12. Pharmaceutical industry interactions with health care professionals: a global perspective; 13. Internet resources for teaching about PPII and independent sources of information about prescription medicines.