Medical students do not think they have authority to advise patients to stop smoking

doi:10.1136/bmj.313.7048.48c

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Yoshikatsu Mochizuki,
David While,
Anne Charlton

Visiting research fellow Asahikawa Medical College, Department of Public Health, 5-Go, Nishikagura, 4-Sen, Asahikawa, Hokkaido 078, Japan
Statistician Director CRC Education and Child Studies Research Group, School of Epidemiology and Health Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PT

EDITOR,—We wish to report a study of the prevalence of smoking among medical students at the University of Manchester Medical School and the students' attitudes towards advising patients to stop smoking. Self administered questionnaires were completed by 621 undergraduate medical students (292 men and 329 women; response rate 57%) from all five years of the medical course. The anonymous questionnaires were distributed to first, second, and third year students during a class; completed during breaks between lectures; and collected at the end of the teaching session. The questionnaires were posted to …