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      Teaching Residents how to Effectively Prescribe Nicotine Replacement Therapy on the Clinical Teaching Unit

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      Canadian Journal of General Internal Medicine
      Dougmar Publishing Group, Inc.

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          Residents and medical students identified a lack of knowledge regarding Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT) as a barrier to smoking cessation counselling. We hypothesized that a teaching session on NRT during an inpatient Internal Medicine rotation would increase learner comfort in prescribing these products. Medical trainees on the Internal Medicine Clinical Teaching Unit (CTU) attended a teaching session during week 4 of an 8-week rotation. Pharmacy records from the 8-week period were retrospectively analyzed to determine NRT prescribing behaviour. Pre-intervention, 5.8% (13/225) of new admissions received a NRT prescription. Post-intervention, 17% (31/182) of new admissions received a NRT prescription. Using a Fisher’s exact test, the percentage of new admissions that received a prescription was significantly different (p<0.001) between the pre- and post-intervention time frames. This data suggests that integrating education on NRT into CTU teaching can significantly alter prescribing behaviour and improve access to NRT for patients who need it.

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              The surgeon general report on smoking and health 50 years later: breast cancer and the cost of increasing caution.

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                Author and article information

                Journal
                Canadian Journal of General Internal Medicine
                Can Journ Gen Int Med
                Dougmar Publishing Group, Inc.
                2369-1778
                1911-1606
                November 13 2018
                October 15 2018
                : 13
                : 4
                : e17-e20
                Article
                10.22374/cjgim.v13i4.271
                dc00ba77-1010-450b-a374-e4302fb81cb9
                © 2018

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                General medicine,Geriatric medicine,Neurology,Internal medicine
                General medicine, Geriatric medicine, Neurology, Internal medicine

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