19. POLICY AND GUIDELINES FOR INTERACTIONS WITH INDUSTRY

• Protected Health Information, including photographs, may not be placed on social media sites. • For the purposes of education, descriptions of patient cases and clinical images may be posted to password protected professional sites once the data has been deidentified. • By virtue of identifying oneself as a part of Stanford in social media, residents connect themselves to, and reflect upon, Stanford colleagues, Stanford patients and supporters. • Remember that all content contributed on all platforms becomes immediately searchable and can be shared. This content leaves the contributing individual’s control forever.

19. Policy and Guidelines for Interactions with Industry

The above policy may be accessed at: https://med.stanford.edu/siip/home.html Highlights of this policy include: 1) Medical staff, faculty, students, and trainees may not accept gifts from Industry anywhere at the Stanford SOM, SHC, LPCH, or other clinical facilities operated by either hospital. It is strongly advised that no form of personal gift from Industry be accepted under any circumstances. 2) Free drug samples given directly to members of the SUMC are considered gifts and may not be accepted, except by the pharmacy for use for needy patients. 3) Gifts or compensation may not be accepted a) at any Stanford or non-Stanford facility such as other hospitals and outreach clinics, b) for listening to a sales talk by an industry representative, c) for prescribing or changing a patient’s prescription, d) for simply attending a CME or other activity or conference, including the defraying of costs. 4) Meals or other types of food directly funded by Industry may not be provided at Stanford SOM, SHC, LPCH, or Menlo Clinic. 5) Sales and marketing representatives are not permitted in any patient care areas except to provide in-service training on devices and other equipment and then only by appointment. They are permitted in non-patient care areas by appointment only. 6) Industry support of students and trainees in the SOM educational programs should be free of any actual or perceived conflict of interest, must be specifically for the purpose of education and must comply with several provisions: a) The Department selects the student or trainee, b) The funds are provided to the School, department, program, division, or institute and not directly to the student or trainee or to an individual faculty member; c) The department, program, division, or institute has determined that the funded conference or program has educational merit, d) the recipient is not subject to any implicit or explicit expectation of providing something in return for the support.