Electronic mail was not better than postal mail for surveying residents and faculty.

Objective: To compare response rate, time to response, and data quality of electronic and postal surveys in the setting of postgraduate medical education.

Study Design And Setting: A randomized controlled trial in a university-based internal medicine residency program. We randomized 119 residents and 83 faculty to an electronic versus a postal survey with up to two reminders and measured response rate, time to response, and data quality.

A survey of internal medicine residents and faculty about the duration of attendings' inpatient rotations.

Objective: Some training programs are shortening the duration of attendings' rotations from 4 weeks to 2 weeks. Our objective was to determine the effect of 2-week inpatient rotation on self-reported impact on medical education, patient care practices, and faculty performance by internal medicine residents and teaching faculty.

Design: Cross-sectional study using an anonymous mailed and emailed survey.