Status:
COMPLETED
Tobacco Treatment Medical Education in 10 Medical Schools
Lead Sponsor:
University of Massachusetts, Worcester
Collaborating Sponsors:
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Conditions:
Tobacco Use Disorder
Smoking Cessation
Eligibility:
All Genders
18+ years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
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-mod...
Detailed Description
Ten medical schools are matched and then randomized, with 5 schools being randomized to MME and 5 schools to TE. The primary aim of the study is to refine, implement, and evaluate whether a multi-mod...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- 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
Exclusion
- 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
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
July 1 2009
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
May 1 2014
Estimated Enrollment :
10 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT01905618
Start Date
July 1 2009
End Date
May 1 2014
Last Update
June 3 2015
Active Locations (13)
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1
University of Alabama-Birmingham
Birmingham, Alabama, United States, 35294
2
Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford, California, United States, 94305
3
Georgetown University School of Medicine
Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States, 20007
4
University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine
Iowa City, Iowa, United States, 52242