[The teaching of medical psychology]

The teaching of the psychological aspects of medical practice are confronted with three great difficulties: 1) Not to turn into an introduction of the teaching of psychiatry, without leaving aside the importance of psychiatric pathology in the general medical practice. 2) To provide medical-psychological scientific knowledge to be applied to everyday medical practice. 3) To base the teaching on scientific foundations of neuroscience and of psychological and social sciences. These aspects are considered in several consensus documents (World Psychiatric Association, International Federation of Societies for Medical Education, Spanish Society for Psychiatry, etc.) which have served as guide for the writing of this new text on medical psychology.