title: Does research into medical education on tobacco and alcohol get the respect it deserves?
abstract: Implementation of effective clinical interventions as part of routine medical care to combat problem drinking and tobacco use is recognized to be low. Insufficient training is an important barrier preventing physicians from delivering interventions recommended in current guidelines. High-impact medical journals publish almost nothing on how to address this. If they start to take an interest perhaps we will see more progress and many thousands of lives saved at minimal cost.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology and Pneumology, University Hospital Göttingen, Robert-Koch-Straße 40, D-37075, Göttingen, Germany; Cancer Research UK Health Behaviour Research Centre, University College London, London, UK. raupach@med.uni-goettingen.de.
authors.forename: Tobias
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Raupach
authors.forename: Henning
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Krampe
authors.forename: Jamie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Brown
mesh_terms: D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000517:prevention & control*; D035843:Biomedical Research; D004501:Education, Medical; D014943:Global Health; D006801:Humans; D000074606:Smoking Prevention
keywords: Impact; journal; medical education; policy; research; smoking