Australian medical students are given little protection from the commercial influence of pharmaceutical companies, with none of the country’s 21 medical schools providing policies or oversight on how to deal with sales representatives, on-site sponsored education or free samples, new research has found.
Medical schools have few protections for students in relation to aggressive marketing from drug companies. Tanya Macheda
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