Medical Students Educate Teens About Skin Cancer: What Have We Learned?

Skin cancer is a serious societal problem, and public awareness outreach, including to youth, is crucial. Medical students have joined forces to educate adolescents about skin cancer with significant impacts; even one 50-min interactive outreach session led to sustained changes in knowledge and beha...

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Autores principales: Kamell, Jeanette M., Rietkerk, William, Lam, Ken, Phillips, Jason M., Wu, Jashin J., McCullough, Jerry L., Linden, Kenneth G., Osann, Kathryn
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer-Verlag 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3041912/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20422477
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13187-010-0120-z
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author Kamell, Jeanette M.
Rietkerk, William
Lam, Ken
Phillips, Jason M.
Wu, Jashin J.
McCullough, Jerry L.
Linden, Kenneth G.
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Lam, Ken
Phillips, Jason M.
Wu, Jashin J.
McCullough, Jerry L.
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description Skin cancer is a serious societal problem, and public awareness outreach, including to youth, is crucial. Medical students have joined forces to educate adolescents about skin cancer with significant impacts; even one 50-min interactive outreach session led to sustained changes in knowledge and behavior in a cohort of 1,200 adolescents surveyed. Medical students can act as a tremendous asset to health awareness public outreach efforts: enthusiastic volunteerism keeps education cost-effective, results in exponential spread of information, reinforces knowledge and communication skills of future physicians, and can result in tangible, life-saving benefits such as early detection of melanoma.
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spelling pubmed-30419122011-03-29 Medical Students Educate Teens About Skin Cancer: What Have We Learned? Kamell, Jeanette M. Rietkerk, William Lam, Ken Phillips, Jason M. Wu, Jashin J. McCullough, Jerry L. Linden, Kenneth G. Osann, Kathryn J Cancer Educ Article Skin cancer is a serious societal problem, and public awareness outreach, including to youth, is crucial. Medical students have joined forces to educate adolescents about skin cancer with significant impacts; even one 50-min interactive outreach session led to sustained changes in knowledge and behavior in a cohort of 1,200 adolescents surveyed. Medical students can act as a tremendous asset to health awareness public outreach efforts: enthusiastic volunteerism keeps education cost-effective, results in exponential spread of information, reinforces knowledge and communication skills of future physicians, and can result in tangible, life-saving benefits such as early detection of melanoma. Springer-Verlag 2010-04-27 2011 /pmc/articles/PMC3041912/ /pubmed/20422477 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13187-010-0120-z Text en © The Author(s) 2010 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited.
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