title: Brief report: Multiprogram evaluation of reading habits of primary care internal medicine residents on ambulatory rotations.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To assess the reading habits and educational resources of primary care internal medicine residents for their ambulatory medicine education.
  
  
  METHODS
  Cross-sectional, multiprogram survey of primary care internal medicine residents.
  
  
  METHODS
  Second- and third-year residents on ambulatory care rotations at 9 primary care medicine programs (124 eligible residents; 71% response rate).
  
  
  RESULTS
  Participants were asked open-ended and 5-point Likert-scaled questions about reading habits: time spent reading, preferred resources, and motivating and inhibiting factors. Participants reported reading medical topics for a mean of 4.3+/-3.0 SD hours weekly. Online-only sources were the most frequently utilized medical resource (mean Likert response 4.16+/-0.87). Respondents most commonly cited specific patients' cases (4.38+/-0.65) and preparation for talks (4.08+/-0.89) as motivating factors, and family responsibilities (3.99+/-0.65) and lack of motivation (3.93+/-0.81) as inhibiting factors.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  To stimulate residents' reading, residency programs should encourage patient- and case-based learning; require teaching assignments; and provide easy access to online curricula.
authors.affiliation: University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA. clai@medicine.ucsf.edu
authors.forename: Cindy J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Lai
authors.forename: Eva
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Aagaard
authors.forename: Suzanne
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Brandenburg
authors.forename: Mohan
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nadkarni
authors.forename: Henry G
authors.initials: HG
authors.lastname: Wei
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Baron
mesh_terms: D000553:Ambulatory Care; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007388:Internal Medicine / Q000193:education*; D020407:Internet; D007396:Internship and Residency; D007858:Learning; D008297:Male; D009042:Motivation; D010506:Periodicals as Topic; D011320:Primary Health Care; D015397:Program Evaluation; D011932:Reading; D014481:United States; D016526:Workload