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NIH’s Role in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)
NIH is well positioned to fund the best science in pursuit of improving the length and the quality of the lives of our citizens, while at the same time stimulating the economy.
March 06, 2009
OBSSR Hosts Conference on Dissemination, Implementation
Harvard Medical School’s
Dr. Jim Yong Kim
As a way to improve public health in a battered world, understanding poverty counts as much as knowing how proteins fold.
March 06, 2009
Research Funders Collaborate To Reduce Childhood Obesity
A new National Collaborative on Childhood Obesity Research (NCCOR) was launched Feb. 19 to accelerate progress on reversing the epidemic of overweight and obesity among U.S. youth.
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May 26, 2009, 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Building a Bridge: Transitional Programs from the Criminal Justice to the Community Setting for HIV+ Drug Users
May 3-8, 2009
Institute on Systems Science and Health
May 22-25, 2009
Gene-Environment Interplay in Stress and Health at the Association for Psychological Science 21st Annual Convention, San Francisco, CA
July 12-24, 2009
OBSSR/NIH Summer Training Institute on Randomized Clinical Trials Involving Behavioral Interventions
August 2-7, 2009
2009 NIH Summer Institute on Community-Based Participatory Research Targeting the Medically Underserved
Application Deadline: May 15, 2009
August 9, 2009
Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR): When Academic/Research Institutions Meet the Real World
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Home > Training and Education > Behavioral and Social Science in Medical School
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Despite the fact that a majority of health problems have significant behavioral and social roots, the behavioral and social aspects of health and training in behavioral health interventions have rarely been a focus within the standard medical school curriculum. In response to this need, OBSSR and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation commissioned an Institute of Medicine report, Improving Medical Education: Enhancing the Behavioral and Social Science Content of Medical School Curricula (published in 2004).
The report includes three core recommendations:
- Integrate behavioral and social science topics into the mainstream curriculum. The report recommended six specific curriculum topics, including mind-body interactions, physician-patient communications skills, and social/cultural factors in health behavior change.
- Develop a new national behavioral and social science curriculum database, as part of the the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC)’s standard Curriculum Management and Information Tool (CurrMIT).
- Create career development and curriculum development awards for behavioral and social science to reward excellence in teaching these subjects within medical schools.
OBSSR issued a Request for Applications ( RFA-OD-05-001) and is supporting nine awards totaling $1.5 million per year for FY 2005 to FY 2010. These innovative K07 awards are allowing the nine medical schools, which are voluntarily collaborating with each other, to develop, implement, evaluate, and disseminate improved behavioral and social science curricula. This initiative should improve clinical knowledge and skills for medical doctors enabling them to address behavior-related health conditions.
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