Behavioral Medicine

This course constitutes an intense study in human behavioral disorders and disease processes within the scope of the psychological sciences. This course employs evidence-based learning and methodology promoting correlation between signs/symptoms of disease, etiology of disease, diagnostic work-up, and the medical rationale for selected management regimes. Students master skills in clinical behavioral medicine, generating differential diagnoses, ordering/interpreting diagnostic studies, development/implementation of appropriate treatment plans, need for specialist referral, including prognosis for ambulatory/hospitalized patients across the lifespan.