Psychiatry in the Undergraduate Medical Curriculum
MORTON F. REISER M.D.1
1 Professor and Chairman, Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, 333 Cedar St., New Haven, Conn. 06510
Psychiatry in its teaching activities has the obligation to develop effective ways of bridging vast theoretical, empirical, and philosophical gaps that exist between nonpsychiatric physicians and biological scientists (without backgrounds in behavioral science) on the one hand, and behavioral and social scientists and other nonmedical professionals engaged in health care (without backgrounds in biology and medicine) on the other hand.
