Education of medical students in Bitola on tobacco use and their role in health promotion activities

Health professionals should have a key role in health promotion activities regarding reduced tobacco use. This study was aimed at presenting students' level of knowledge on harmful effects of smoking and the level of training they had gained in order to quit smoking. The research was done as an epidemiological, cross sectional study according to the standardized methodology of Global Health Professional Survey. The study sample consisted of a hundred college students. During the educational process, 77.5% of females, and 93.1% of males were educated on harmful and dangerous effects of smoking and 59.2% of females and 62.1% of males were instructed how to give up smoking and the age of 86.6% of them was from 18 to 24 years. It has been concluded that some qualitative changes are needed in the current curricula and syllabi.