title: Psychiatry Residents' Use of Educational Websites: A Pilot Survey Study.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Psychiatry residents have numerous online educational resources readily available to them although currently there are no data regarding residents' use and perception of such websites.
  
  
  METHODS
  A survey was offered to 62 residents from all four years of training as well as recent graduates of a single psychiatry residency training program.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Residents reported utilizing online resources on average 68 % of the time, in comparison to 32 % on average for printed materials. Residents reported UpToDate, PubMed, and Wikipedia as the most visited websites and ranked each highly but for different purposes. Thirty-five percent of residents felt that insufficient faculty guidance was a barrier to use of these educational websites.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Pilot data indicate psychiatry residents use online resources daily for their education in various settings. Resident perceptions of individual website's trustworthiness, ease of use, and sources of clinical decision-making and personal learning suggest potential opportunities for educators to better understand the current use of these resources in residency training. Reported barriers including lack of faculty guidance suggest opportunities for academic psychiatry. Further study is necessary at multiple sites before such results may be generalized.
authors.affiliation: Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. jtorous@bidmc.harvard.edu.
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Torous
authors.affiliation: Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
authors.forename: Jamie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Franzan
authors.affiliation: Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
authors.forename: Ryan
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: O'Connor
authors.affiliation: Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
authors.forename: Ian
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Mathew
authors.affiliation: Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
authors.forename: Matcheri
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Keshavan
authors.affiliation: Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kitts
authors.affiliation: Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Boland
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D019992:Databases as Topic; D004690:Encyclopedias as Topic; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D007396:Internship and Residency; D008491:Medical Informatics Applications; D010820:Physicians; D010865:Pilot Projects; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000193:education*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
keywords: Resident training; Residents; Teaching methods