Patient-centered curricula at the University of Geneva: opening the door to psychotherapy training

An increasing importance is given today to social and behavioural sciences in medical education in most developed countries. The goal is to ensure that trained medical students are ‘fit to purpose’ as stated in an editorial of the British Medical Journal [1]. We believe that a central component of this task is to promote interest towards ‘patientcentered care’ in future medical doctors. This short paper will focus on two patient-centered medical education initiatives which takes place at the beginning and end of the medical curriculum at the University of Geneva