I work in medical communications, and it’s important to point out that the physicians who are paid to give talks, chair advisory boards and steering committees, or even train other physicians on how to deliver promotional slide decks are referred to as “key opinion leaders”. The are considered to be at the top of their fields, and are fr…
I work in medical communications, and it’s important to point out that the physicians who are paid to give talks, chair advisory boards and steering committees, or even train other physicians on how to deliver promotional slide decks are referred to as “key opinion leaders”. The are considered to be at the top of their fields, and are frequently also the same clinicians running the clinical trials that are sponsored by the same pharmaceutical companies that are paying them for all of these other activities.
I work in medical communications, and it’s important to point out that the physicians who are paid to give talks, chair advisory boards and steering committees, or even train other physicians on how to deliver promotional slide decks are referred to as “key opinion leaders”. The are considered to be at the top of their fields, and are frequently also the same clinicians running the clinical trials that are sponsored by the same pharmaceutical companies that are paying them for all of these other activities.