The purpose of this study was twofold: 1) to examine website content provided by U.S. and Canadian pediatric dentistry residency programs, and 2) to understand aspects of program websites that dental students report to be related to their interests. Sixty-eight program websites were reviewed by five interprofessional evaluators. A thirty-six-item evaluation form was organized into 1) program descriptive items listed on the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry (AAPD) website (n=21); 2) additional program descriptive items not listed on the AAPD website but of interest (n=9); and 3) items related to website interface design (n=5). We also surveyed fifty-four dental students regarding their interest in various aspects of program descriptions. The results of this study suggest that pediatric dentistry residency programs in general tend to provide identical or less information than what is listed on the AAPD website. The majority of respondents (76 percent) reported that residency program websites would be their first source of information about advanced programs. The greatest gap between the available website information and students' interests exists in these areas: stipend and tuition information, state licensure, and program strengths. Pediatric dentistry residency programs underutilize websites as a marketing and recruitment tool and should incorporate more information in areas of students' priority interests.

A simple moment of inspiration based on the American empiric psychologist Csíkszentmihalyi's theory about optimal experience, internal motivation and flow was presented to medical students. The students, from the preclinical terms, were exposed to a movie showing a routine heart operation (coronary bypass) with comments during the film. The team presenting the film consisted of nurses in cardiothoracic and vascular anesthesia, a cardiothoracic surgeon, and a perfusionist. Questions from the students were answered by them. Thereafter, there was a panel discussion with junior specialists in cardiothoracic surgery and cardiology about the years after graduating.The moment was evaluated using Touchpoint® and one single question: What is your opinion about the inspiration moment? Of the 77 participating students 65 (84%) answered that the moment was "very good" and 12 (16%) answered "good".These preliminary data suggest that the method may possibly be an adequate tool to increase internal motivation among preclinical semester medical students.