Since george engel’s introduction of the biopsychosocial model, some medical schools now focus on teaching

a. doctors to see the body as a machine
b. patient-centered, problem-based care
c. how to treat the symptoms of a mental illness
d. patients to self-treat their illness

The correct answer for the blank is-

B. patient-centered, problem-based care.

The biopsychosocial model was developed by George L. Engel in the year 1977 for understanding health and illness of individuals.

It represents a health model, which includes social, biological, and psychological aspects and their interactions in understanding of health, illness, as well as delivery of health care.

After this model was proposed, some medical schools now focus on teaching patient-centered ( that is keeping the problems of ill individuals as the center), problem-based care.

Thus, option B) is the right answer.