Advancing Physician Knowledge - Industry also supports physician education, and in some instances that will be reported as payments to individual physicians, even if the physicians are not aware. For example, a physician may receive an honorarium from his or her medical society for being on the faculty of an educational program put on by the society. If the society received a grant from industry to help support the program, that honorarium may be reported as indirect payment from industry through the Open Payments system, even though the physician received the honorarium directly from the medical society and wasn't aware of the industry support.
Continuing Medical Education courses funded by the industry as well as visits from pharmaceutical representatives to physician offices or health care organizations to talk about new research and treatment options can also supplement physicians' knowledge about new advances in medicine. Additionally, industry sometimes provides physicians with reprints of peer-reviewed medical journal articles and medical textbooks, which likewise help physicians stay abreast of the latest medical treatments.
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