Improving Medical Education: Enhancing the Behavioral and Social Science Content of Medical School Curricula

Institute of Medicine

doi:10.17226/10956

Consensus Study Report

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Improving Medical Education

Enhancing the Behavioral and Social Science Content of Medical School Curricula

(2004)

Roughly half of all deaths in the United States are linked to behavioral and social factors. The leading causes of preventable death and disease in the United States are smoking, sedentary lifestyle, along with poor dietary habits, and alcohol consumption. To make measurable improvements in the health of Americans, physicians must be equipped with the knowledge and skills from the behavioral and social sciences needed to recognize, understand, and effectively respond to patients as individuals, not just to their symptoms. What are medical schools teaching students about the behavioral and social sciences?

In the report, the committee concluded that there is inadequate information available to sufficiently describe behavioral and social science curriculum content, teaching techniques, and assessment methodologies in U.S. medical schools and recommends development of a new national behavioral and social science database. The committee also recommended that the National Board of Medical Examiners ensure that the U.S. Medical Licensing Examination adequately cover the behavioral and social science subject matter recommended in this report.

Contributor(s): Institute of Medicine; Board on Neuroscience and Behavioral Health; Committee on Behavioral and Social Sciences in Medical School Curricula; Patricia A. Cuff and Neal Vanselow, Editors

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Institute of Medicine. 2004. Improving Medical Education: Enhancing the Behavioral and Social Science Content of Medical School Curricula. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/10956.

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168 pages | 6 x 9 |

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Paperback: 978-0-309-09142-8
Ebook: 978-0-309-16629-4

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17226/10956

Chapters		skim
Front Matter	i-xx
Executive Summary	1-14
1 Introduction	15-19
2 Current Approaches to Incorporating the Behaviorial and Social Sciences into Medical School Curricula	20-51
3 The Behavioral and Social Sciences in Medical School Curricula	52-86
4 Strategies for Incorporating the Behavioral and Social Sciences into Medical School Curricula	87-98
References	99-118
Appendix A: Methods	119-134
Appendix B: Committee and Staff Biographies	135-140
Index	141-148

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