Guidelines for Educational Events Sponsored by Industry 

All SoM activities should be conducted in a manner consistent with the mission of the School and UW Medicine, and not in primary furtherance of a commercial entity. 

A. Guidelines for Department Educational Events Sponsored by Industry When the SoM and its various departments and offices choose to solicit corporate financial support, they should follow the guidelines established by UW Medicine Advancement. This policy is intended to provide additional direction and support in minimizing conflicts of interest with commercial entities. l. General Guidelines for Outside Support Industry support for educational activities within UW Medicine institutions or UW School of Medicine educational programs in any location is permitted only if all of the following conditions are met: 

  1.      The support is unrestricted with respect to content, topic, and speaker;
  2.      The support is limited to payment for the actual costs of the educational activity;
  3.      The support is made at a divisional or departmental level for general educational purposes and not for individual faculty members;
  4.      Industry may not designate particular individuals as the recipients of support for travel, accommodations, books, subscriptions, meeting       registration, etc.;
  5.      Industry representatives may attend but not participate in the educational event or participate in the event as an opportunity to market         products;
  6.     Support is in compliance with all applicable Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)/Accreditation Council for          Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) standards; and
  7.     No trinkets, gifts, promotional material, free samples, or other marketing materials are available at the educational event. Only educational materials may be distributed at an educational event.

ACCME standards can be found at the ACCME website Links to an external site. and relate to interactions with industry in terms of independence of program planning, resolution of conflicts of interest, appropriate use of commercial support, management of commercial promotion, and handling potential content bias. 2. Acknowledgment of Support The acceptance of industry support for SoM educational events must occur without the actual or apparent endorsement of a company's products or services. Written materials related to the event, and verbal announcements during the event, should include disclaimers appropriate to the circumstances, such as: 

"Acceptance of commercial support from a particular company does not imply an endorsement of that company or its products, or a promise of future purchase of the company's products." "Use of a particular vendor's equipment does not imply a preference for, or endorsement of, that equipment, or a promise of future purchase of that equipment." 

However, vendors or manufacturers providing support for an educational event may be acknowledged and thanked for their support in an appropriate fashion, such as verbally at the event, website acknowledgement, a simple sign, or in the written program .