A time-efficient model of spreading health awareness which also provides good experiential learning to medical students.

Although alcohol and tobacco are leading causes of mortality and morbidity, their use continues to be common. We hypothesized that awareness about this issue can be spread in a time-efficient way if health talks are conducted within hospital premises itself. Furthermore, this could potentially provide good experiential learning to medical students.In this longitudinal study, we implemented such an awareness activity and evaluated the outcome....