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Title Improving medical education : enhancing the behavioral and social science content of medical school curricula / Committee on Behavioral and Social Sciences in Medical School Curricula, Board on Neuroscience and Behavioral Health, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies ; Patricia A. Cuff and Neal A. Vanselow, editors
Published Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (147 pages) : illustrations
Contents FrontMatter -- Independent Report Reviewers -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Tables, Figures, and Boxes -- Executive Summary -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Current Approaches to Incorporating the Behavioral and Social Sciences into Medical School Curricula -- 3 The Behavioral and Social Sciences in Medical School Curricula -- 4 Strategies for Incorporating the Behavioral and Social Sciences into Medical School Curricula -- References -- APPENDIXES -- A Methods -- B Committee and Staff Biographies -- Index
Summary 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, 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Medical education
Medical colleges -- Curricula
Social sciences.
Medicine and psychology.
Education -- Curricula.
Medical colleges.
Education, Medical
Curriculum
Schools, Medical
Social Sciences
social sciences.
curricula.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Holism.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Reference.
MEDICAL -- Alternative Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Atlases.
MEDICAL -- Essays.
MEDICAL -- Family & General Practice.
MEDICAL -- Holistic Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Osteopathy.
Medical colleges
Education -- Curricula
Medical colleges -- Curricula
Medical education
Medicine and psychology
Social sciences
SUBJECT United States
Form Electronic book
Author Cuff, Patricia A.
Vanselow, Neal A. (Neal Arthur)
Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on Behavioral and Social Sciences in Medical School Curricula.
LC no. 2004105404
ISBN 9780309530019
0309530016