White Guide and Orange Guide Formatting Project - Pfizer
White Guide and Orange Guide Formatting Project - Pfizer
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Medical Education Grants<br />
Overview<br />
<strong>Orange</strong> <strong>Guide</strong> – Chapter 3: Support of External Organizations<br />
<strong>Pfizer</strong> provides non-promotional funding to third party organizations in the form of independent<br />
medical education grants. An independent medical education grant refers to funding given to a third-<br />
party entity for a healthcare quality improvement (QI) initiative or to support a specific educational or<br />
professional development activity directed at healthcare professionals (HCPs) that will benefit the<br />
public <strong>and</strong> improve patient health.<br />
Legitimate professional <strong>and</strong> educational initiatives that can be supported with medical education<br />
grants include activities like continuing medical education (CME)/continuing education (CE) for HCPs.<br />
Medical education grants are permissible only if they are “independent”, which means that colleagues<br />
may not influence the content of the supported activity or how it is conducted. For example, colleagues<br />
cannot choose nor have any input on the topic of the activity, food served at the activity, or the<br />
speakers who participate in the activity. Additionally, if <strong>Pfizer</strong> colleagues are solicited by external<br />
organizations to serve as faculty, colleagues are required to ascertain whether funding has been<br />
provided by <strong>Pfizer</strong> for the specific medical education conference/program. Any independent CME/CE<br />
conference/program supported by <strong>Pfizer</strong> precludes <strong>Pfizer</strong> colleagues from serving as faculty for that<br />
CME conference/program.<br />
The review <strong>and</strong> approval of requests for education grants in the U.S. (<strong>and</strong> Puerto Rico) is managed by<br />
<strong>Pfizer</strong>’s Medical Education Group (MEG). MEG, a part of <strong>Pfizer</strong> Medical, works with therapeutic area<br />
representatives from BU Medical <strong>and</strong> Legal to develop medical educational goals for all clinical areas of<br />
interest. To be considered for funding, a grant request should align with these medical educational<br />
goals <strong>and</strong> meet all of the criteria of an appropriate educational activity, including that it is independent<br />
<strong>and</strong> information provided is balanced, accurate <strong>and</strong> not misleading, delivered to a broad audience <strong>and</strong><br />
reasonable in cost. Additional criteria must be met when responding to a request for proposal (RFP)<br />
prepared by MEG in collaboration with External Review Panels.<br />
Under no circumstances does <strong>Pfizer</strong> condition grant funding upon past, present or future<br />
prescribing, purchasing or recommending of <strong>Pfizer</strong> products, nor will <strong>Pfizer</strong> accept any benefits in<br />
return for providing a medical education grant. MEG also does not provide medical education grants<br />
in support of an individual’s career advancement or development. (The review <strong>and</strong> approval process for<br />
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