The practice of psychosomatic medicine is closely related to that of behavioral medicine, particularly in terms of the bio-psycho-social aspect of health, as has been demonstrated in the previous articles of BioPsychoSocial Medicine [1–3]. Behavioral medicine is an interdisciplinary field combining medicine, psychology and social science, and the integration of behavioral medicine with psychoso...

Many of the exciting conceptual and scientific advances in the field of psychosomatic medicine are not taught in United States medical schools. This article, based on the Presidential Address given at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychosomatic Society in Phoenix, Arizona in March 2003, reviews the rationale for integrating psychosomatic medicine into medical curricula, identifies educatio...