Conflict of Interest/Outside Activities

UF COI Program/eDisclose

Per UF COI and COC Policy, UF employees must request approval prior to participating in select outside activities (Pre Approval Request, “PAR”) and report actual Disclosable Interests related to their area of expertise on their Disclosure Profiles. This page explains the disclosure requirements for outside activities and financial interests, when employees must submit in the a PAR and report/keep up-to-date a disclosable interest in the UF’s eDisclose system.

UF COM – COI Policy

UF Regulation Number: 5.0764College of Medicine Policy on Pharmaceutical, Medical Device, and Biotechnology Industry Conflicts of Interest and Policy on Industry Academic Relations

The College of Medicine’s conflicts of interest policy applies to COM personnel at UF. Under COM’s COI Policy on Industry Academic Relations, all interactions between COM personnel and Industry must conform with the policy on specific activities, including:

  • Gifts
  • Pharmaceutical Samples and Educational Materials
  • On‐Site Access by Industry
  • Continuing Medical Education (CME) and Other Educational Activities
  • Travel to Meetings/Honoraria for Attendance
  • Authorship
  • Scholarships and Fellowships
  • Prohibition on Speaker Bureaus
  • Restrictions on Food/Entertainment

Outside clinical (patient care) activity by a faculty physician within a fifty-mile radius of the site of the faculty physician’s major clinical assignment is not authorized.