The speakers' bureau system: A form of peer selling

Lynette Reid, Matthew Herder

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In the speakers' bureau system, physicians are recruited and trained by pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device companies to deliver information about products to other physicians, in exchange for a fee. Using publicly available disclosures, we assessed the thesis that speakers' bureau involvement is not a feature of academic medicine in Canada, by estimating the prevalence of participation in speakers' bureaus among Canadian faculty in one medical specialty, cardiology. We analyzed the relevant features of an actual contract made public by the physician addressee and applied the Canadian Medical Association (CMA) guidelines on physician-industry relations to participation in a speakers' bureau. We argue that speakers' bureauparticipation constitutes a form of peer selling that should be understood to contravene the prohibition on product endorsement in the CMA Code of Ethics. Academic medical institutions, in conjunction with regulatory colleges, should continue and strengthen their policies to address participation inspeakers' bureaus.

Langue d'origineEnglish
Pages (de-à)1-9
Nombre de pages9
JournalOpen Medicine
Volume7
Numéro de publication2
Statut de publicationPublished - 2013

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  • General Medicine

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