Article Text
PDFBrief report
The ethics behind medical conferences: a view from India
Abstract
Medical conferences are organised by professional bodies with a view to providing an opportunity of continuing medical education and improving the practices of medical professionals. Of late these events have degenerated into entertainment extravaganzas and no longer remain pure academic exercises. This article discusses the possible reasons behind the current state of decay and mechanisms to improve the state of affairs.
- Education for healthcare professionals
- education/programs
- ethics
- medical conferences
- pharmaceutical
Statistics from Altmetric.com
Read the full text or download the PDF:
Other content recommended for you
- Pharmaceutical industry sponsorship of academic conferences: ethics of conflict of interest
- Biomedical conflicts of interest: a defence of the sequestration thesis—learning from the cases of Nancy Olivieri and David Healy
- Who pays for the pizza? Redefining the relationships between doctors and drug companies. 2: Disentanglement
- “Asset exchange”—interactions between patient groups and pharmaceutical industry: Australian qualitative study
- Conflict of interest between professional medical societies and industry: a cross-sectional study of Italian medical societies’ websites
- A cross-sectional analysis of pharmaceutical industry-funded events for health professionals in Australia
- Who pays for the pizza? Redefining the relationships between doctors and drug companies. 1: Entanglement
- Pharmaceutical industry payments and assisted reproduction in Australia: a retrospective observational study
- Vaginal mesh implants: putting the relations between UK doctors and industry in plain sight
- India moves to curb unethical drug promotional practices