Vaccine Hesitancy Counseling-an Educational Intervention to Teach a Critical Skill to Preclinical Medical Students.

Introduction: There has been a recent rise in public perception that vaccines are unsafe, fostering vaccine hesitancy (VH). Few interventions have focused on teaching medical students' communication skills for counseling vaccine-hesitant patients.

Methods: Our educational intervention, designed for medical students, involved a self-study module followed by an interactive session on VH.

Will they lead by example? Assessment of vaccination rates and attitudes to human papilloma virus in millennial medical students.

Background: Human papillomavirus (HPV) is the most common sexually transmitted infection in the United States. It is also well established that HPV viruses are responsible for a variety of cancers. Little is known about the prevailing knowledge and attitudes toward the HPV vaccine in our future healthcare providers, a majority of whom were among the first in the target age group to receive the vaccine; the same vaccine that they will in turn be expected to recommend to their patients.

Improvement in attitudes toward influenza vaccination in medical students following an integrated curricular intervention.

Introduction: Vaccination of health care workers (HCW) reduces transmission of influenza among patients, yet uptake of vaccination remains low. If vaccination education is integrated into the early medical school curriculum, will student attitudes toward the vaccine change? The objectives of the study were to: (1) Determine influenza vaccination rates among entering medical students; (2) Assess the attitudes toward influenza vaccination; (3) Evaluate the effects of a multifaceted educational intervention on attitudes to vaccination.

Methods: Entering medical students were surveyed before and after an intervention at the beginning of the influenza season.