Do medical students know enough about smoking to help their future patients? Assessment of new york city fourth-year medical students' knowledge of tobacco cessation and treatment for nicotine addiction

Academic Medicine

Volumn 83, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 982-989

  Springer, Carolyn M ^a   Tannert Niang, Kathryn M ^b   Matte, Thomas D ^b   Miller, Nancy ^b   Bassett, Mary T ^b   Frieden, Thomas R ^b  

^a ADELPHI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; INTERNET; MEDICAL CARE; MEDICAL STUDENT; NICOTINE REPLACEMENT THERAPY; OPEN ENDED QUESTIONNAIRE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; TOBACCO DEPENDENCE;

EID: 67849111704     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e3181850b68     Document Type: Article

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