FLIPPlease join us for an exciting half-day symposium on the influence of the pharmaceutical industry on evidence based prescribing. This symposium represents a unique opportunity for medical and pharmacy students to learn about important issues that will affect their prescribing practices, as well as their relationship with the pharmaceutical industry. In an effort to balance the industry information sources students are exposed to throughout their training and practice, the symposium will provide skills to become more critical and evidence-based prescribers.
Guest speakers will include several nationally renowned project leaders as well as the
local faculty from the national Attorney General Consumer and Prescribers Grant Program--a
$21 million educational grant program created by the settlement of the Attorney Generals
of the 50 states with Warner Lambert for illegal promotion of the drug Neurontin
(Gabapentin). One of the 28 projects funded through this program, the Cook
County-UIC Colleges of Pharmacy and
Medicine FLIP project has developed 14 educational modules to educate pharmacists, medical
students, residents and attending physicians.
Evidence Based Prescribing and the Pharmaceutical Industry is a joint effort,
organized by FLIP, medical and pharmacy students and faculty and others including the
Editor in Chief of the JAMA, Catherine DeAngelis.
