2016 Volume 56 Issue 1 Pages 34-39
Behavioral medicine has increased its importance, becoming a promising field, in medical education. Teikyo University Graduate School of Public Health has the following five core requirements as a global standard : Behavioral Medicine, Biostatistics, Epidemiology, Occupational Health, and Health Policy Management. Behavioral medicine mainly deals with psychology in normal populations. It works as a gateway to the medical world among non-medical professionals who are interested in medicine. Furthermore, teachers of behavioral medicine need to be careful about the difference between normal and pathological populations. Lectures should be performed by TBL or 4C/ID methods because students need pragmatic knowledge and skills. Psychosomatic physicians could be among the most optimal professionals in dealing with behavioral medicine because of the similarities between psychosomatic medicine and behavioral medicine.
