An Ethics Code for MECCs?

When I heard the news from Mike Saxton, team leader and senior director of Pfizer's Medical Education Group, that his company would no longer award grants directly to medical education and communication companies, I wasn't surprised. (See story, page 22.) At the North American Association of Medical Education and Communication Companies' meeting, held during the Alliance for CME annual conference in January, Saxton and attendees had engaged in a heated debate regarding the practice