The American Medical Student Association released a 2009 version of their PharmFreeScorecard, evaluating 149 U.S. medical schools based on their stated conflict-of-interest policies. According to the executive summary, 21 percent of schools improved their policies in the last year, with 16 more schools scoring an A or B in 2009.
AMSA rates policies in fields such as scholarships, continuing medical education, purchasing, gifts and samples, curriculum, consulting, speaking and disclosure and combines them to determine a school’s overall grade. The association handed out 9 As, 36 Bs, 18 Cs, 17 Ds and 35Fs, with 27 schools still pending or otherwise in the process of changing their regulations.
