AMA ethics board seeks end to commercial CME sponsorship

The heated discussion keep going...good point though on how do you distinguish the difference between promotional material and certified CME credits...is it a thin line at times...BD

The American Medical Association's Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs [CEJA] is calling for an end to almost all commercial support for professional education.
In a report, CEJA, which makes AMA ethics policy, said physicians and institutions of medicine should not accept commercial support for CME except for narrow technical training on new diagnostic or therapeutic devices and techniques.
Critics of the report said CEJA failed to distinguish between certified CME and promotional med ed, wrongly projected continued growth in commercial support and failed to account for how certified CME might be funded, should a $1 billion-plus source of support be disallowed.