[Teaching about chronic pain in psychosomatics courses - an overview of the situation in Germany and the Tübingen Model].

Unlabelled: Teaching about chronic pain in psychosomatics courses - an overview of the situation in Germany and the Tübingen Model Objectives: When dealing with chronic pain patients it is crucial to take a bio-psycho-social approach. However, it is unclear how this approach is currently being taught to medical students, and how they judge its role and importance.

Methods: We carried out a qualitative study (questionnaire) asking (1) German psychosomatic departments about pain-related teaching and (2) medical undergraduates about pain-relevant issues.

Communication skills of medical students during the OSCE: Gender-specific differences in a longitudinal trend study.

Background: Communication skills are essential in a patient-centred health service and therefore in medical teaching. Although significant differences in communication behaviour of male and female students are known, gender differences in the performance of students are still under-reported. The aim of this study was to analyse gender differences in communication skills of medical students in the context of an OSCE exam (OSCE = Objective Structured Clinical Examination).

The place of additional individual psychotherapy in the treatment of alcoholism: a randomized controlled study in nonresponders to anticraving medication-results of the PREDICT study.

Background: Goal of the presented study is to evaluate whether alcohol-dependent patients given additional individual psychotherapy after a heavy relapse during pharmacotherapy remain abstinent for longer than those who continue with pharmacotherapy alone.

Methods: In a randomized, multicenter study, 109 alcohol-dependent patients who had suffered a heavy relapse either while receiving anticraving medication or placebo were randomized into 2 groups. One group received medication, medical management, and additional individual, disorder-specific, cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy, while the control group received medication and medical management only.

[Extensive interactions between eating and weight disorder, major depression, pain, and sarcoidosis - case 5/2012].

History And Admission Findings: We report on a 41-year-old female patient suffering from obesity, binge eating more than twice a week with loss of control, eating rapidly and feeling guilty after eating, dyspnoea and chronic pain in the whole body, especially in her arms, legs and in both ankles. Furthermore, subdued mood, loss of interest and pleasure, fatigue and impaired concentration could be recognized. In the past, weight increase had been observed when corticosteroids were given against exacerbations of sarcoidosis.