Name
Implementation and Evaluation of an Integrated Behavioral Health Curriculum within a Family Medicine Clerkship
Date & Time
Thursday, October 16, 2025, 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Description

Once again, we believe this manuscript addresses a critical gap in undergraduate medical student education by evaluating the impact of an Integrated Behavioral Health curriculum on third-year medical students during their family medicine clerkship. The study shows the important role of interprofessional care in medicine and highlights the collaboration between primary care providers and behavioral health consultants and how teaching this model enhances students' understanding of integrated mental health care and care delivery.

Speakers
Catherine Guariglia MD, Jefferson,
Mollie Cherson LCSW, Jefferson University Health System, Abington, Pennsylvania
Co-Authors
Pooja Padgaonkar, MD: pooja.padgaonkar@rutgers.edu
Barbara Cymring, MD: Barbara.Cymring@jefferson.edu
Dhruvi Shah, MPH: shah13dhruvi@gmail.com
Laura Monroe: Laura.Monroe@jefferson.edu
Maria Syl D. de la Cruz, MD: MariaSyl.delaCruz@jefferson.edu
Content Level
All Audience
Tags
Early Career Professionals, Primary Care Behavioral Health Model, Training/Supervision
Session Type
Poster
SIG or Committee
Medicine, Pediatrics (PEDs)
Objective 1
Recognize the benefit of incorporating a didactic and shadow experience into the medical student clerkship rotation
Objective 2
Identify one step they can take to introduce Integrated Behavioral Health curriculum into their medical clerkship education
Objective 3
Take away one lesson learned or area of growth from this pilot program
Content Reference 1

Choi, R.J., Betancourt, R.M., DeMarco, M.P. et al. Medical Student Exposure to Integrated Behavioral Health. Acad Psychiatry 43, 191–195 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40596-018-0936-0

Content Reference 2

Kimberly Zoberi, Ryan M. Niemiec & Ronald B. Margolis (2008) Teaching integrated behavioral health in a primary care clerkship, Medical Teacher, 30:7, e218-e223, DOI: 10.1080/01421590802208875

Content Reference 3

Martin, M. P. (2017). Integrated behavioral health training for primary care clinicians: Five lessons learned from a negative study. Families, Systems, & Health, 35(3), 352–359. https://doi.org/10.1037/fsh0000278

Content Reference 4

Ogbeide, S., George, D., Sandoval, A., Johnson-Esparza, Y., & Villacampa, M. M. (2024). Clinical Efforts Double Disparity for Nonphysician URiM Faculty: Implications for Academic Family Medicine. Family medicine, 56(6), 346–352. https://doi.org/10.22454/FamMed.2024.553188

Content Reference 5

Landoll, R. R., Nielsen, M. K., Waggoner, K. K., & Najera, E. (2019). Innovations in primary care behavioral health: a pilot study across the U.S. Air Force. Translational behavioral medicine, 9(2), 266–273. https://doi.org/10.1093/tbm/iby046