title: Teaching of cardiopulmonary resuscitation by medical students.
abstract: Ten first-year medical students were taught basic cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) according to the guidelines laid down by the American Heart Association. Following a 7.5-hour instruction period they, in turn, taught 40 secondary school pupils. On formal assessment using models, all the school children were able to perform basic CPR.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate; D006266:Health Education; D006801:Humans; D012151:Resuscitation / Q000193:education*; D012606:Scotland; D013337:Students, Medical; D013663:Teaching