What is the difference between a charitable contribution and an educational grant?
• Fellowships: Support for bona fide fellowship programs at teaching institutions, medical societies and cooperative groups. We also may support travel scholarships for fellows, residents or health care providers in training to attend relevant major medical or scientific conferences for the purpose of education. All support is in agreement with the AMA Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs Gifts to Physicians from Industry. Charitable contributions describe donation requests that are used for purposes other than health care professional education initiatives. Charitable contributions may be cash or product donations. • A cash charitable contribution is a financial donation that is philanthropic in nature and provided to a nonprofit organization to support a specific community-based (or regional/national) program, project, or event. • A product donation is provided through specific product giving programs to non-government organizations generally responding to disasters, medical relie
