Stress ulcer prophylaxis for non-critically ill patients on a teaching service.

Rationale: Doctors frequently give non-critically ill patients unjustified stress ulcer prophylaxis (SUP). It is unknown if this practice also occurs during residency training.

Objective: To evaluate the pattern of SUP given to non-critically ill medical patients on the teaching service of an internal medicine residency programme.

Improving the physical diagnosis skills of third-year medical students: a controlled trial of a literature-based curriculum.

Objective: To determine if a literature-based physical diagnosis curriculum could improve student knowledge, skill, and self-confidence in physical diagnosis.

Design: Prospective controlled trial of an educational intervention.

Setting: Required internal medicine clerkship for third-year medical students at Brown Medical School.

Patients' use of the Internet for medical information.

Objectives: To determine the percentage of patients enrolled in a primary care practice who use the Internet for health information, to describe the types of information sought, to evaluate patients' perceptions of the quality of this information, and to determine if patients who use the Internet for health information discuss this with their doctors.

Design: Self-administered mailed survey.

Setting: Patients from a primary care internal medicine private practice.