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