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An Educational Intervention on Organ and Tissue Donation for First-Year Medical Students

transplantation have not been met by the education and outreach efforts in the social and behavioral sciences to increase the number of organs and tissue available for transplantation. Currently 97929 candidates are waiting for 1 or more organs needed to enhance and prolong quality of life.1 Despite public support for transplantation,2-4 the consent rate (defined as the proportion of eligible individuals who consent to donation) and the conversion rate (proportion of eligible individuals who actually donate) for deceased donors are estimated to be 54% and 42%, respectively.5 A common culprit in understanding low consent rates is the lack of information that individuals possess about the transplantation process.6-8 At best, individuals lack knowledge of the basic facts about donation (eg, organ allocation, donor eligibility) and at worst, individuals harbor misconceptions about donation (eg, compromised treatment, black market for organs). Research in medicine reveals that medical professionals and medical trainees are also uninformed about the transplantation process.9-11 As a result of these knowledge deficits, physicians and health care professionals may be less likely to identify potential donors, may be more reluctant to discuss the topic of donation, or may be reticent to consult with grieving families during the donation process.12-16 Consider recent findings11 from a survey of 500 firstand second-year medical students in Ohio. Students answered 54% of 20 knowledge questions incorrectly, and only 28% of students knew the definitional criteria for brain death. In terms of their medical training, only 22% of respondents reported exposure to donation training during medical school and only 43% reported that they knew where to find an answer to patients’ questions regarding organ donation. The authors of the survey in Ohio conclude their article with the following call for research, “Evaluations of the incorporation of a formal organ donation and transplantation curriculum on medical student donation willingness among them and their parents are encouraged.”11(p137) Other health policy professionals have also argued for greater efforts to promote organ donation in medical education.17,18 An educational intervention on organ and tissue donation for first-year medical students