Summary: University of Missouri at Kansas City School of Medicine provides a good policy which prevents acceptance of gifts of any value, including meals. Industry representatives are only permitted on the premises by appointment. Gifts to the institution and support for education are to be received and controlled by the institution's CME offices. Unfortunately, both the Disclosure and Industry Speaking Relationships policies are lacking. Their Disclosure policies only require faculty to disclosure level conflicts of interest above $10,000.  Policies on speaking relationships may indeed be more stringent than what we have graded them, but they have not provided us these policies. Finally, there is no enforcement or penalties cited. 

Demographics: On average students spend 80% of their training at Truman Medical Center and the remainder at Saint Luke’s Hospital and Children’s Mercy Hospital. The submitted policies apply to the school of medicine, Truman Medical Center, and affiliated behavioral health and family practice sites but not Saint Luke’s Hospital or Children’s Mercy Hospital.

Updates  

This institution did not submit any new or additional policies for the 2012-13 AMSA PharmFree Scorecard.

This institution's evaluation was last updated: 2/03/2012.