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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 eligible students (N = 1096) from the class of 2014 completed an OSCE and 69.7 % (N = 1047) completed pre and post surveys.

Interventions

The MME included a Web-based course, a role-play classroom demonstration, and a clerkship booster session. Clerkship preceptors in MME schools participated in an academic detailing module and were encouraged to be role models for third-year students.

Measurements

The primary outcome was student tobacco treatment skills using the 5As measured by an objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) scored on a 33-item behavior checklist. Secondary outcomes were student self-reported skills for performing 5As and pharmacotherapy counseling.

Results

Although the difference was not statistically significant, MME students completed more tobacco counseling behaviors on the OSCE checklist (mean 8.7 [SE 0.6] vs. mean 8.0 [SE 0.6], p = 0.52) than TE students. Several of the individual Assist and Arrange items were significantly more likely to have been completed by MME students, including suggesting behavioral strategies (11.8 % vs. 4.5 %, p < 0.001) and providing information regarding quitline (21.0 % vs. 3.8 %, p < 0.001). MME students reported higher self-efficacy for Assist, Arrange, and Pharmacotherapy counseling items (ps ≤0.05).

Limitations

Inclusion of only ten schools limits generalizability.

Conclusions

Subsequent interventions should incorporate lessons learned from this first randomized controlled trial of a multi-modal longitudinal tobacco treatment curriculum in multiple U.S. medical schools. NIH Trial Registry Number: NCT01905618.

SUBMITTER: Ockene JK

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

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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

Ockene Judith K JK Hayes Rashelle B RB Churchill Linda C LC Crawford Sybil L SL Jolicoeur Denise G DG Murray David M DM Shoben Abigail B AB David Sean P SP Ferguson Kristi J KJ Huggett Kathryn N KN Adams Michael M Okuliar Catherine A CA Gross Robin L RL Bass Pat F PF Greenberg Ruth B RB Leone Frank T FT Okuyemi Kola S KS Rudy David W DW Waugh Jonathan B JB Geller Alan C AC

Journal of general internal medicine 20160201 2

<h4>Background</h4>Early in medical education, physicians must develop competencies needed for tobacco dependence treatment.<h4>Objective</h4>To assess the effect of a multi-modal tobacco dependence treatment curriculum on medical students' counseling skills.<h4>Design</h4>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).<h4>Setting ...[more]

PMID: 26391030

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

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

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