Evaluating children with otitis media for bacteremia or urinary tract infection.

Background. It is unclear if clinicians evaluate for concurrent bacteremia or UTI in young patients diagnosed with acute otitis media (AOM). Objectives.

Pain relief for neonatal circumcision: a follow-up of residency training practices.

Objective: To assess current training practices regarding the provision of effective analgesia for routine newborn circumcision.

Methods: All family practice (FP), obstetric and gynecologic (OB/GYN), and pediatric (PED) residency program directors in the United States received a mailed survey in 2003 (N = 940).

Results: Survey responses were received from 86% (811/940) of the programs (FP 88%, OB/GYN 82%, and PED 87%).

The use of Spanish by medical students and residents at one university hospital.

Purpose: To describe how medical trainees report communication with Spanish-speaking patients, and to assess trainees' desire to improve their language skills and have those skills formally evaluated.

Method: A questionnaire was mailed to all fourth-year medical students and non-first-year residents in family practice, pediatrics, medicine, medicine-pediatrics, emergency medicine, and obstetrics-gynecology at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry in 2004 (N = 263).

Results: The response rate was 92% (241/263).