The leading subjects on aesthetic surgery and cosmetic dermatologyConflict of Interest Policy
Disclosure of Conflict of Interest
1. What is a conflict of interest? (COI)
A situation in which a person (or spouse or partner) who is lecturing at IMCAS has a sufficient personal and/or financial relationship with a commercial or not commercial entity that may thus bias the content of his/her presentation.
In general, the safest and most open course of action is to disclose activities and relationships that, if known to others, might be viewed as a conflict of interest, even if speakers do not believe that any conflict or bias exists.
What is a bias?
Bias is a term used to describe a tendency or preference towards a particular perspective, ideology or result, especially when the tendency interferes with the ability to be impartial, unprejudiced or objective. Bias may be scientific, political, religious, gender-related, ethnic, racial, cultural or geographical. Bias may occur in relation to a particular industry or commercial product such as a mechanical device or pharmaceutical agent, or in relation to a particular intellectual, political or other view, in situations where a range of products or views may be equally useful or valid.
2. Conflict of interest policy
To maintain scientific transparency, all non-sponsored scientific lectures at IMCAS must be free of any kind of bias. All faculty members must openly disclose any COI that can influence the content of their presentation.
Disclosure must be made whether the speaker has or does not have a COI with its lecture content.
Hence, prior each lecture presentation, the corresponding Disclosure Slide, which had been previously filled in through the speaker platform by the speaker him/herself, will be automatically displayed.
> What about the level of "significance" in terms of interest?
Whether an interest is “significant” will depend on individual circumstances and cannot be defined by a dollar amount. Participation on a board of directors or any other relationship with a product, device or company should be carefully considered for possible disclosure. In addition speakers should also carefully consider disclosure where circumstances could suggest bias against a product, device or company.
> How about speaker(s) declaring a "no Conflict of Interest"?
Neither the speaker nor any member of his/her immediate family has a significant financial arrangement or affiliation with the product, device or company involved in the congress nor any potential bias against another product, device or company.
3. Who is concerned by the COI policy?
Anyone who is a speaker during the conference or contributes within the elaboration of the scientific program thus:
- Members of the Scientific Board (Course Director, Course Coordinators, Scientific Secretaries)
- Faculty Members
- All other speakers (symposium, live demo, new device speaker...)
What is the mandatory process of disclosure?
Two steps are required to ensure that any COI has been addressed
1/ Read the COI Policy uplisted in chapter 32/ Through your speaker account IMCAS webplatform
- A / If you are a member of the Scientific Board
- Agree with the Policy terms
- Fill in the "Scientific Board Disclosure COI"
- Fill in the standardized "Speaker/Chairperson Disclosure COI" for each one of the lectures to be presented (whichever support is used: oral, e-paper, video, or poster)
- B / If you are a member of the Faculty
- Agree with the Policy terms
- Fill in the standardized "Speaker/Chairperson Disclosure COI" for each one of the lectures to be presented (whichever support is used: oral, e-paper, video, or poster)
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