TY - JOUR
KW - Behavioral Medicine/education
KW - Communication
KW - Education, Medical, Continuing
KW - Health Behavior
KW - Humans
KW - Physician-Patient Relations
KW - Primary Health Care
KW - Professional Competence
AU - M. D. Feldman
AU - S. A. Berkowitz
A1 - 
AB - PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Behavioral medicine is a vast field with an ever-increasing knowledge base. We review important findings over the last 18 months. RECENT FINDINGS: We organized advances in behavioral medicine into four main topic areas: the doctor and patient, health-related behavior, integration of behavioral medicine in primary care, and teaching and assessing behavioral medicine competencies in primary care. Section I reviews research on difficult encounters, delivering bad and sad news, and physician well being. Section II examines improvements in the treatment of obesity and tobacco abuse, as well as interventions which boost adherence. Section III discusses advancements in care management and collaborative care in the USA and resource-constrained settings. Finally, section IV deals with teaching and assessing communication skills, behavior change, and professionalism. SUMMARY: Physician skills such as communication, professionalism, behavior change, and self-care are not innate abilities, but teachable and learnable skills. Collaborative care and the integration of behavioral medicine with care for other conditions can benefit patients, and can be done effectively with case management and telemonitoring strategies. Future behavioral medicine research should include evaluation of implementation strategies so that we may incorporate principles of behavioral medicine more widely into clinical practice.
BT - Current opinion in psychiatry
C5 - Education & Workforce
CP - 2
CY - United States
DO - 10.1097/YCO.0b013e3283503576
IS - 2
JF - Current opinion in psychiatry
N2 - PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Behavioral medicine is a vast field with an ever-increasing knowledge base. We review important findings over the last 18 months. RECENT FINDINGS: We organized advances in behavioral medicine into four main topic areas: the doctor and patient, health-related behavior, integration of behavioral medicine in primary care, and teaching and assessing behavioral medicine competencies in primary care. Section I reviews research on difficult encounters, delivering bad and sad news, and physician well being. Section II examines improvements in the treatment of obesity and tobacco abuse, as well as interventions which boost adherence. Section III discusses advancements in care management and collaborative care in the USA and resource-constrained settings. Finally, section IV deals with teaching and assessing communication skills, behavior change, and professionalism. SUMMARY: Physician skills such as communication, professionalism, behavior change, and self-care are not innate abilities, but teachable and learnable skills. Collaborative care and the integration of behavioral medicine with care for other conditions can benefit patients, and can be done effectively with case management and telemonitoring strategies. Future behavioral medicine research should include evaluation of implementation strategies so that we may incorporate principles of behavioral medicine more widely into clinical practice.
PP - United States
PY - 2012
SN - 1473-6578; 0951-7367
SP - 121
EP - 127
EP - 
T1 - Role of behavioral medicine in primary care
T2 - Current opinion in psychiatry
TI - Role of behavioral medicine in primary care
U1 - Education & Workforce
U2 - 22249080
U3 - 10.1097/YCO.0b013e3283503576
VL - 25
VO - 1473-6578; 0951-7367
Y1 - 2012
ER -