-- A requirement that Medical Education Directors incorporate, as part of residency training, curriculum designed to teach residents to identify: (a) evidence-based data; and (b) conflicts of interest.

-- Prohibiting physicians from claiming authorship of any article or study unless they actually authored the work in question;


-- Prohibiting physicians from misrepresenting financial interests in any required disclosure form, including through the omission of required information;

-- Creation of a system to manage conflicts to protect the safety of clinical trial participants and the integrity of the research.

"The proposed regulations accompanying the report on physician compensation are designed to ensure that patient care is guided by the unbiased exercise of doctors' best judgments," Attorney General Milgram said in a press release on her website, endorsing the report's recommendations. "It is critical to minimize the potential for conflicts and it is critical that patients are made aware of any financial relationship between a physician and a pharmaceutical company or medical device manufacturer. Such relationships could bias medical decision-making."

The New Jersey Attorney General's press release with the report can be accessed at: http://www.nj.gov/oag/newsreleases09/pr20091203b.html

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