| Abstract | The new generation of physicians graduating from training
programs today are more comfortable leveraging the Internet for
medical information than pouring over journal articles and textbooks.
Medical students also find it easier and more effective to learn and use
general Internet search engines than medical meta-indices or medical
search engines. Medical education needs to address the use of these
resources, and train physicians to recognize markers of trustworthy
Internet information: authorship, attribution, disclosure, and
currency. It is up to the current generation of teachers and mentors to
stress the need to go to the source, review the actual data, and
determine the reliability of information offered. |