INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVE: Our study aims to help improve communication between the emergency medicine and the pharmaceutical industry by defining the pharmaceutical industry in terms of emergency physicians and evaluating the knowledge level of physicians about the industry for the first time.
METHODS: The research was conducted through a personal written questionnaire to the physicians who attended the 15th Emergency Medicine Congress held in Antalya on 21-24 November 2019. According to the information questions, the "Pharmaceutical Industry Knowledge Level Score" (ISBP) was determined as 20 points and evaluations were made based on this score.
RESULTS: The mean ICBP of all participants was 3.74 ± 3.31 (0-14). Thirty-two (23.19%) participants had zero PSBP. The ISBPs of physicians working in public hospitals were found to be statistically higher than those working in medical faculties (p=0.022). However, the results of the doctors working in the training and research hospital were similar to those in the other two units. Gender, green occupation, region, service, drug representative, area of promotion, number of options flagged for factors that make promotion difficult in the emergency department, Emergency physician availability among ISBPs responding to all domains for opinions on drug representatives challenge, and industry at visiting agent level
DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION: Emergency medicine specialists have little knowledge about the pharmaceutical industry and state that they need information. In order for the emergency medicine and pharmaceutical industry to work efficiently, it needs to work more on new methods in a strategic sense.