Learning to assist smokers through encounters with standardized patients: An innovative training for physicians in an Eastern European country.

OBJECTIVES:A lack of physician training is a major obstacle for effective tobacco dependence treatment. This study assessed the feasibility of an active learning training program and its effects on smoking cessation counselling skills of medical residents in Armenia, an Eastern European country with...

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Main Authors: Narine K Movsisyan, Varduhi Petrosyan, Gohar Abelyan, Ondrej Sochor, Satenik Baghdasaryan, Jean-François Etter
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0222813