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REGULAR ARTICLES | December 01, 1990

AIDS as a Paradigm of Human Behavior in Disease Impact and Implications of a Course

H. Jonathan Polan; Marilyn Iris Auerbach; Milton Viederman

Academic Psychiatry 1990;14:197-203.

The authors thank the course faculty; Samuel Perry, M.D., for help in drafting the questionnaire; Fatima Badr, M.S., for data processing; Carl Rosenberg, Ph.D., for statistical consultation; Arnold Cooper, M.D., for comments on a draft of this article; and Robert Michels, M.D., for support of the course's development and comments on drafts of this article.

Department of Psychiatry, Cornell University Medical College, New York, New York

School of Health Sciences, Hunter College, New York, New York

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A new required psychiatry course for first-year medical students linked the urgent need for acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) education with the traditional goal of teaching the biopsychosocial model of illness. The course,"Human Behavior in Disease: AIDS as Paradigm," used HIV/AIDS to demonstrate principles of all life-threatening diseases. Formal evaluations of the course's impact indicated that it significantly reduced students' prejudices and increased positive attitudes regarding AIDS patients. The students' ratings of the course indicated that the AIDS paradigm was understood and valued. Our experience suggests that preclinical psychiatry courses can play an important role in the medical educational response to AIDS, while, at the same time, achieving their traditional curricular goals.

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