Some doctors are increasingly upset that drugmakers pay for continuing medical education.

So Adriane Fugh-Berman, an associate professor in the department of physiology at Georgetown University School of Medicine, and several colleagues this month launched a new website called www.pharmedout.org, which enables doctors to find classes on the Internet and for free. In other words, no concerns about any conflicts of interest.

“If you’re a doctor, you can refuse to see drug reps in your office, but you can’t avoid CMEs,” she tells The Washington Post.

The projects are funded by a $21 million grant through the Attorney General Consumer and Prescriber Grant Program, which was created as part of a 2004 settlement by Warner-Lambert involving the drugmaker’s illegal promotion of the widely used epilepsy drug Neurontin.

Check out the website and you can watch a former Eli Lilly sales rep allege that Zyprexa, the controversial anti-psychotic, was marketed inappropriately.

[tags]CME, Industry Funding, Zyprexa[/tags]