Data: Funding and CME
•>40% CME funding is from industry
–Up from 17% in 1994
–$569 million in 2001; 22% increase since 2000
•Evidence that industry uses CME as a “marketing tool”
•Physicians attending company’s courses disproportionately prescribe their products
Sources:
Society for Academic CME,
JAMA v285, JAMA v283