Recipients of the Attorney General Consumer and Prescriber Education Program grants are developing Web-based, accredited courses to educate health care professionals about pharmaceutical industry marketing techniques and their effect on prescribing practices. The courses are available free of charge to all licensed medical prescribers in the nation and may be taken for continuing medical education credit.*

Accredited CME modules will be added to the OPEN portal as they are completed. The following two modules from PharmedOut (Georgetown University Medical Center) are currently available:

• Drug Approval in the US: How Drugs get to Market provides a brief history of the FDA and describes the process by which new drugs are approved (1.0 CME credit).


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• Generic Drugs: Prescribing Sensibly describes how generic drugs are approved, and how they compare to branded drugs (1.0 CME credit).
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*This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas & Policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint sponsorship of The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and the Federation of State Medical Boards Research and Education Foundation. The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.