Abstract
Background: Despite increasing awareness of their importance in health care, and repeated calls for their incorporation, the behavioral and social sciences are minimally represented and poorly integrated with biomedical sciences in medical school curricula. Summary: In this article, I discuss the lack of an integrating model and the continuing demarcation along discipline-based departmental lines of biologic and sociobehavioral sciences curricula. An integrated sciences model and curriculum are proposed. Conclusions: Behavioral medicine research that seeks to explain the how of biobehavioral links, and universal principles such as stress, offer keys to a medical education approach that integrates biologic and sociobehavioral sciences phenomena. I discuss a conceptual framework of this approach and strategies for its implementation.
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