In Michael Rich MD and Miriam Baron’s MD study, Child Health in the Information Age: Media Education of Pediatricians, they conduct a survey of 209 pediatric residency programs. This survey compares with and updates information in the 1986 survey The Impact of Television on Children: Current Pediatric Training Practices. Many questions were designed to elicit comparable information as the previous survey as well as incorporating other aspects that were not as significant in 1986, such as the …showed first 75 words of 674 total…

…showed last 75 words of 674 total…of his parents had a talk with him about how TV works. If pediatricians were adiquately trained to deal with this, and instructed to bring it up with parents it would establish a base of information that would give them ideas on how to deal with their children in regard to TV. Bibliography Michael Rich, MD, and Miriam Baron, MD “Child Health in the Information Age: Media Education of Pediatricians” Pediatrics 2001 Jan 2001 Lexus Nexus Feb 2001