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Table 2 Student and faculty perceptions of conflict of interest

From: Medical student and medical school teaching faculty perceptions of conflict of interest

Statement

Students

Faculty

p value

Mean

SD

Mean

SD

Question 1 It is acceptable for healthcare professionals to receive gifts or food from pharmaceutical or medical device companiesa

2.03

1.05

2.20

1.09

0.25

Question 2 It is acceptable for medical students to receive gifts or food from pharmaceutical or medical device companiesa

2.00

1.09

2.20

1.11

0.16

Question 3 If I accept gift or food from pharmaceutical or medical device company representatives, I will be more likely to prescribe, use, or recommend those company’s products now or in the futurea

2.13

1.21

2.44

1.32

0.102

Question 4 Healthcare professionals who accept gifts or food from pharmaceutical or medical device company representatives will be more likely to prescribe, use, or recommend those company’s productsa

3.23

1.10

3.17

1.28

0.791

Question 5 Pharmaceutical and medical device company representatives should be prohibited from meeting with healthcare professionalsa

2.27

1.00

2.07

1.12

0.10

Question 6 Pharmaceutical and medical device company representatives should be prohibited from meeting with medical studentsa

2.83

1.16

2.96

1.39

0.52

Question 7 Medical schools should require educators to disclose to learners any monies received from pharmaceutical or medical device companies for speaking, consulting, travel, or researcha

4.06

0.96

4.30

1.05

0.01

Question 8 Medical educators who disclose their potential conflicts of interest are less likely to present biased material than those who do not disclosea

3.79

0.88

3.22

1.04

<0.001

Question 9 Healthcare providers should disclose to patients any monies received from pharmaceutical or medical device companies for speaking, consulting, travel, or research, if it is related to a product or device that will be used in that patient’s carea

3.98

0.98

4.09

0.90

0.55

Question 10 Healthcare providers should disclose to patients any monies received from pharmaceutical or medical device companies for speaking, consulting, travel, or research, regardless of the reason for that patient’s visita

3.08

1.20

2.74

1.22

0.54

  1. Responses were collected from 149 first-year medical students and 68 medical school teaching faculty in August 2015 at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine
  2. SD standard deviation
  3. aResponses are based upon a five point Likert scale. Response scale: 1 = strongly disagree, 2 = disagree, 3 = neutral, 4 = agree, 5 = strongly agree