There are two moons in the night sky! Elimination of industry support for CME

Someone finally realized that you can’t suck and blow at the same time…it’s long overdue for organized dentistry to do the same……

Something huge happened at the American Medical Association House of Delegates meeting. Although the meaning of what happened will be spun throughout the blogosphere, twittersphere, and schmuckosphere, the bottom line is that the AMA just voted most commercial funding of CME out of existence.

Specifically, the delegates voted to approve a report of the AMA ethics committee that calls for a near elimination of industry support for CME. The report is entitled “Financial Relationships with Industry in Continuing Medical Education.”

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