Discrepancy between patients' use of and health providers' familiarity with CAM.

Objective: To compare patients' complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) use and physicians' familiarity with certain CAM modalities in the same setting and to assess patient-provider dialogue about patients' CAM use.

Methods: An observational survey study with convenience sampling at ambulatory family medicine clinics in two Texas cities. A total of 69 healthcare providers and 468 patients completed the surveys.

Epistemology and uncertainty: a follow-up study with third-year medical students.

Background And Objectives: Prior research results indicate a relationship between medical epistemology (ie, how a physician organizes and prioritizes the biological and psychosocial data of a patient presentation) and stress reactions to uncertainty among primary care physicians. However, little is known about when this relationship forms. The purpose of this study was to begin answering this question by exploring the relationship between medical epistemology and stress reactions to uncertainty among a group of 89 third-year medical students from the class of 2010 of a three-campus state medical school located in the southwestern US.