UM: Medical Licensing

The New York Times reports that the UM Medical School has decided to eliminate commercial financing, beginning next January, for postgraduate medical education – the nation’s first medical school to make that move. That means the university won’t take funding from drug and device makers for courses that doctors need to renew their medical license. The article interviews Paul Lichter, director of the UM Kellogg Eye Center, which eliminated the practice decades ago: “This can be done. It’s what we are used to that makes it difficult to change.” [Source]