Can drug or device companies fund scholarship programs to allow medical students, residents and interns to attend meetings and conferences?
Under the Pharma and AdvaMed Codes, this is permitted. Under the Mass. Rules such direct funding is not permitted. However, an event planner or medical society may use unrestricted funds contributed by a drug or medical device company toward the cost of a scholarship program at a meeting or conference as long as it is run independently by a medical society or academic medical center without any company attribution or influence.
