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American Journal of Public Health, 10.2105/AJPH.2004.057331

Commentary Forum

Tobacco Control Competencies for US Medical Students

Alan C Geller 1*, Jane Zapka 2, Katie Brooks 1, Catherine Dube 3, Catherine Powers 1, Nancy Rigotti 4, Joseph O'Donnell 5, Judith Ockene 6

1 Boston University School of Medicine
2 Medical University of South Carolina
3 Brown University
4 Harvard Medical School
5 Dartmouth Medical School
6 University of Massachusetts Medical School

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: ageller{at}bu.edu.


  Abstract

The recently published National Action Plan for Tobacco Cessation (2004) recommended that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ". . .convene a diverse group of experts to ensure that competency in tobacco dependence interventions is a core graduation requirement for all new physicians and other key health care professionals." Core competencies would guide the design of new modules and explicitly outline the learning objectives that all medical students should have met upon graduation. In 2002, the National Cancer Institute funded a consortium of 12 US medical schools to develop, test, and integrate tobacco curricula throughout the four years of medical school. Since there was neither an explicit set of tobacco competencies for medical schools, nor a process to develop them, one of the consortium's first tasks was to articulate competencies and learning objectives. We look forward to critical review of these competencies prior to the development and subsequent dissemination of new curricula.

Key Words: Health Professionals, Prevention, Smoking Cessation, Tobacco Control




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