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But several other employees have raised concerns that its reach may have detrimental effects on physicians’ activities, such as continuing medical education.
Harvard Medical School began a review of its own conflict of interest policy in Jan. 2009 in conjunction with Harvard’s currently ongoing efforts to develop University-wide recommendations and guidelines.
Medical School professor David B. Acker, who is also chief of obstetrics at Brigham and Women’s, says he approves of Partners’ new policy, which was released in April 2009 and is now being implemented.
Though Medical School professor Charles N. Serhan, who served on the committee that issued the policy recommendations, says he applauds the policy’s aims to rein in conflicts of interest issues, he cautions that its expansive reach does not come without costs.
Meanwhile, Barry W. Levine, a clinical professor at the Medical School who has worked at Mass. General for four decades, says he is still figuring out how the new policy will impact his profession.