Physicians were asked to rank the companies that have the best general sales reps, specialty sales reps, and medical science liaisons as part of “Specialty Reps 2007: An Influential Force,” a recent Verispan survey of 4,000 physicians from across 24 different specialties.
The District of Columbia could become the first jurisdiction within the country to require the licensing of pharmaceutical sales representatives, pending the outcome of a bill being voted on in the local DC Council.
Ascend pulls the plug on medical titles
January 1, 2008
5:00 am
Ascend Media is shedding its titles dependent on pharma ad revenue.
In an editorial (Academic Medicine, Dec. 2007), Michael Whitcomb, MD, called producing a capable physician workforce “the most important challenge facing academic medicine.”