Can Today’s Medical School Faculty Teach Tomorrow’s Physicians about Patient-Centered Care?

Abstract

The concepts of patient-centered care and the medical home should bring changes in the way we educate future health professionals. The contributions of the behavioral faculty and the behavioral sciences in medical education are critical to these changes as curricula are re-designed and experiential learning replaces theory-based courses. The challenge for today's faculty is how to teach future health professionals for practice in a health care structure that does not yet exist.