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Medical Schools Grades for Resistance to Pharma Marketing

Only 21 of 150 medical schools surveyed by the American Medical Student Association (AMSA) have strong policies (either graded A or B), against the pharmaceutical industry marketing to medical students.

Marketing to doctors has been estimated at $28 billion to $46 billion per year, with additional promotion by the medical. This equates, conservatively, to $35,000 per year in marketing directed at each physician.

Below are the list of medical schools ranked A or B, you can find the full list here.

1. (A) - University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
2. (A) - Mount Sinai School of Medicine
3. (A) - University of California Davis
4. (A) - University of Pennsylvania
5. (A) - UCLA
6. (A) - UCSF
7. (A) - Uniformed Services University
8. (B) - University of Massachusetts
9. (B) - UC Irvine
10. (B) - University of Michigan
11. (B) - University of Miami (FL)
12. (B) - Boston University
13. (B) - Vanderbilt
14. (B) - Columbia University
15. (B) - University of North Carolina
16. (B) - SUNY Upstate
17. (B) - Texas Southwestern
18. (B) - Florida State University
19. (B) - University of New Mexico
20. (B) - Stanford University
21. (B) - Washington University (St. Louis)

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