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Integrating Behavioral and Social Sciences in the Medical School Curriculum: Opportunities and Challenges for Psychology
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Original Paper
Integrating Behavioral and Social Sciences in the Medical School Curriculum: Opportunities and Challenges for Psychology
John E. Carr1  , Eugene K. Emory2, Anthony Errichetti3, Suzanne Bennett Johnson4 and Elena Reyes4
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Departments of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, and Psychology, University of Washington, 4225 Roosevelt Way, NE, Seattle, WA 98105, USA |
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Departments of Psychology, and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA |
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Institute for Clinical Competence, New York College of Osteopathic Medicine, New York, NY, USA |
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Department of Medical Humanities and Social Sciences, Florida State University College of Medicine, Tallahassee, FL, USA |
Published online: 13 January 2007
Abstract The Institute of Medicine has reviewed and made recommendations concerning current teaching approaches, content, and barriers
to the incorporation of behavioral/social sciences in medical school curricula (Cuff & Vanselow, 2004). This paper discusses
those recommendations, the history of medical education reform, the barriers to and evolution of behavioral/social sciences’
inclusion, and the implications for psychology’s future role in academic medicine. Psychological concepts and technology permeate
medical practice, but little progress has been made in integrating psychological and biological sciences. Looking to its basic
science domains (e.g. cognition, learning, development, neuroscience), psychology can take scientific leadership in illuminating
the mechanisms by which behavioral/social processes interact with biological functions in health, thereby providing the empirical
basis for a truly integrated bio-behavioral curriculum.
Keywords Behavioral/social sciences in medicine - Medical school curriculum - Bio-behavioral integration - Health psychology - Health care system
This article is based upon a symposium, “IOM Report on Enhancing Behavioral & Social Science in Medical Education: Impact
and Opportunities for Psychology,” presented at the Annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, Washington,
D.C., August 21, 2005. Suzanne Bennett Johnson, Chair; Elena Reyes, John E. Carr, and Anthony Errichetti, participants; Eugene
K. Emory, Discussant.
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