Word: conflictive
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...Spurred by the possible conflict and the lack of any written policy preventing it, the students began advocating not only for more stringent policies within the Medical School but also across the affiliated hospitals, where students complete their third and fourth years of training...
...Richardson did not, in fact, violate any of the Medical School’s existing conflict of interest policies. But the AMSA students had touched upon an important matter—there was no written disclosure policy for the classroom at the time...
...After coming across what they viewed as a potential conflict of interest in a Medical School class last September, a group of first-year students banded together to press the administration to codify long-standing informal policies—effectively triggering the first set of conversations that would dominate interactions between the opposing student groups...
...first-years—members of the American Medical Students Association, a national group that has made waves by rating medical school conflict of interest policies—alleged that a board position held by Professor Paul G. G. Richardson raised concerns because a drug marketed by that company was discussed in class...
...This isn’t about a few bad apples,” says David C. Tian, a first-year medical student who joined the AMSA protesters early this year in their quest to revamp the school’s conflict of interest policies. “This is a systemic issue that requires policy-making on the institutional level. Harvard Medical School should represent the practice of medicine as a whole...