Summary: Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine submitted new policies in 2011-12 which did not alter scores in any domain. At Case, there is a limited scope of seemingly good policies, due to multiple policies at different affiliate sites which are not unified. The aggregate scores were lower than some of the individual hospital policies. To be specific, with gifts, multiple policies were similar prohibitive. However, samples were prohibited in one policy but not the other. The curriculum goes beyond the scope of just the institution's policy and addresses pharmaceutical marketing, financial conflicts of interest, and its effects on physician decision-making. 

Demographics: The three primary sites of student training are University Hospitals Case Medical Center which includes an affiliated Veterans Affairs hospital, the Cleveland Clinic, and MetroHealth Medical Center. Training is split roughly 33% at each hospital. Policies were submitted from the school of medicine and each affiliate 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: 2/28/2012.