Tobacco Treatment Medical Education in 10 Medical Schools

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Tobacco Use Disorder, Smoking Cessation

In brief

This study compares two methods of teaching the 5As (Ask, Advise, Assess, Assist, Arrange) for tobacco dependence treatment to medical students: 1) traditional medical education (TE), and 2) multi-modal education (MME). The MME arm builds upon the traditional curriculum at the medical school by providing a web-based instructional program, a role play, preceptor training, and a booster session. The hypotheses are that MME will outperform TE on observed 5As counseling skills on the Objective Structured Clinical Exam (OSCE); and MME will outperform TE on self-reported 5As counseling skills.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01905618

Run by

University of Massachusetts, Worcester

People needed

10

Starts

2009-07-01

Expected to finish

2014-05-01

Last updated by the study team

2015-06-03

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Medical schools must have:-at least 90 first year medical students
• third year OSCEs, willing to add a tobacco-related OSCE, and able to provide access to each student's OSCE
• a tobacco curriculum not exceeding a total of four hours over the four years
• the flexibility within their curriculum to add and adopt new tobacco cessation modules
• willing and able to require first year students to enroll in the web-based course and to award credit for its successful completion
• a curriculum that includes a third year Family Medicine or Internal Medicine Clerkship
• resources to allow web-based training and electronic contact with students
• the ability to allow first and third year medical students to be surveyed

You may not qualify if…

• Medical schools are excluded if they do not have:
• at least 90 first year medical students
• a third year OSCE, and are not willing to add a tobacco-related OSCE or able to provide access to student OSCEs
• a tobacco curriculum of less than four hours over the four years
• the flexibility within their curriculum to add and adopt new tobacco cessation modules
• the capacity to require first year students to enroll in the web-based course and to award credit for successful completion of the course
• a curriculum that includes a third year Family Medicine or Internal Medicine Clerkship
• resources to allow web-based training and electronic contact with students
• the ability to allow first and third year medical students to be surveyed

Where it is running

• University of Alabama-Birmingham — Birmingham, Alabama, United States
• Stanford University School of Medicine — Stanford, California, United States
• Georgetown University School of Medicine — Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States
• University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine — Iowa City, Iowa, United States
• University of Kentucky College of Medicine — Lexington, Kentucky, United States
• University of Louisville School of Medicine — Louiville, Kentucky, United States
• Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center-Shreveport — Shreveport, Louisiana, United States
• Harvard School of Public Health — Boston, Massachusetts, United States
• University of Massachusetts Medical School — Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
• University of Minnesota Medical School — Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
• Creighton University School of Medicine — Omaha, Nebraska, United States
• The Ohio State University — Columbus, Ohio, United States
• University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

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