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Alan C. Geller, MPH, RN, Jane Zapka, ScD, Katie R. Brooks, BA, Catherine Dube, EdD, Catherine A. Powers, EdD, LSW, Nancy Rigotti, MD, Joseph O’Donnell, MD, Judith Ockene, PhD for the Prevention and Cessation Education Consortium

Alan C. Geller and Katie R. Brooks are with the Cancer Prevention and Control Center, Department of Dermatology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Mass. Jane Zapka is with the Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston. Catherine Dube is with Brown University, Providence, RI. Catherine A. Powers is with the Department of Dermatology, Boston University School of Medicine. Nancy Rigotti is with Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass. Joseph O’Donnell is with Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH. Judith Ockene is with the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Mass.

Correspondence: Request for reprints should be sent to Alan C. Geller, Boston University School of Medicine, 720 Harrison Ave, DOB 801A, Boston, MA 02118 (e-mail: ageller{at}bu.edu).

ABSTRACT

The 2004 National Action Plan for Tobacco Cessation recommended that the US Department of Health and Human Services convene a diverse group of experts to ensure that competency in tobacco dependence interventions be 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 for all graduating medical students.

In 2002, the National Cancer Institute funded a consortium to develop, test, and integrate tobacco curricula at 12 US medical schools. Because there was neither an explicit set of tobacco competencies for medical schools nor a process to develop them, one of the consortium’s tasks was to articulate competencies and learning objectives.