Teaching Medical Students to Help Patients Quit Smoking: Outcomes of a 10-School Randomized Controlled Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Early in medical education, physicians must develop competencies needed for tobacco dependence treatment.

Objective

To assess the effect of a multi-modal tobacco dependence treatment curriculum on medical students' counseling skills.

Design

A group-randomized controlled trial (2010-2014) included ten U.S. medical schools that were randomized to receive either multi-modal tobacco treatment education (MME) or traditional tobacco treatment education (TE).

Setting/participants

Students from the classes of 2012 and 2014 at ten medical schools participated. Students from the class of 2012 (N = 1345) completed objective structured clinical examinations (OSCEs), and 50 % (N = 660) were randomly selected for pre-intervention evaluation. A total of 72.9 % of e

SUBMITTER: Ockene JK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4720645 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature