The Biopsychosocial Model and Medical Education

Abstract

Elsewhere I have discussed the need for medicine to adopt a more inclusive scientific model if physicians in the future are to apply the same scientific rigor to the approach and understanding of patients and their care as they customarily apply to the diagnosis and treatment of disease.^{1 2 3} In this essay I address the question of who are to be the teachers of such a new scientific model. Because psychiatry has in the past had the main responsibility for education in, broadly speaking, the psychological and social aspects of medicine, it is widely assumed, especially by psychiatrists, that to psychiatry . . .