STAT+: Family medicine residents don’t interact with pharma as much as they once did

Amid concerns about pharmaceutical industry influence on physicians, a new survey finds fewer family medicine residents are interacting with drug makers over the past dozen years.
Specifically, a growing majority of residency programs report that their residents are not allowed to accept food, gifts, or product samples, that they have limited the access that sales reps have to residents, and that they do not permit activities sponsored by drug companies. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…