Gerald G. Osborn

TL;DR: An intensive training program for primary care residents in interviewing and related psychosocial topics in medicine is developed and tested, finding that the patients of trained residents would have greater satisfaction, fewer somatic symptoms, less social dysfunction, less depression and anxiety, and reduced functional disability.

TL;DR: The intensive psychosocial training program for residents improved their patients' satisfaction and the effect of training on patient satisfaction with patient disclosure and physician empathy was greater for female than for male residents.

TL;DR: This work describes here for the first time their training program--and proposes that the training can be adapted for students, physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and other new learners as well.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the importance of interviewing and patient-physician relationship in medical care, but residencies provide little formal instruction in these areas, and they propose a method to determine the e...

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the differential efficacy of self-control therapy alone and selfcontrol therapy plus antidepressant medication in treating unipolar depression and found that combined treatment resulted in significantly more rapid improvement as measured by the Beck Depression Inventory.