CD-ROM for Program Directors to Help Develop Residency Tobacco Control Curriculum 

A CD-ROM with teaching tools to help programs develop residency curriculum in tobacco prevention and control is available to pediatric residency program directors, residents, and other interested faculty from the AAP Julius B. Richmond Center.  It was rolled out at the AAP NCE meeting in October 2008, to coincide with the launch of the 2008-2009 AAP Resident Section child advocacy campaign on tobacco.  
 
The CD was developed by Kristen Andersen, MD, a PL-3 Pediatric Resident at Saint Louis University School of Medicine, as part of her 2007-08 Julius B. Richmond Center of Excellence Visiting Lectureship grant, which supported a 2-day visit by Dr. Dana Best, a Richmond Center investigator and Director of the Children’s National Medical Center’s Hospital SmokeFree Homes project.  The CD includes PowerPoint lectures suitable for resident noon conferences, role playing exercises, templates that can be used to make patient quitline referral cards, and other tools for practice. Dr. Andersen was inspired to create the CD of the resources they used in St. Louis after their pediatric residents doubled the rate at which they were addressing tobacco after the January Visiting Lectureship activities.    

The CD is now available online:
Protecting Children From Secondhand Smoke & Tobacco: A Pediatric Curriculum Guide