Essential Clinical Cancer Genetics Internet Curriculum

描述(申请人提供)：癌症遗传学革命改变了高危人群的临床实践。由于缺乏教育和经验，医生们没有能力向患者提供最新的癌症基因信息。为了更好地培养未来的医生，我们将在凯斯西储大学(CWRU)医学院开发一个动态多媒体电子课程。该项目的目标是制作一个独特的以电子为基础的癌症遗传学医学院课程，名为临床癌症遗传学要点。它将提供有关癌症遗传学原理、它们在临床实践中的应用、遗传咨询和病人护理的最新、临床相关的信息，以及解决癌症遗传学咨询中固有的伦理、法律和社会问题。基础课程将是一门独立的课程，由基于互联网的CWRU医学院综合电子课程(IEC)嵌入和支持，医学、护理、遗传咨询、遗传学和其他相关领域的学生将很容易获得该课程。今后，该课程将以光盘形式提供给其他人。该项目的具体目标有四个方面，并构成了跨学科教学方法的基础，为学生提供对临床癌症遗传学的复杂人类问题的理解：1)为医学和其他卫生专业学生扩展和完善创新的基于互联网的临床癌症遗传学课程的每个单元的具体学习目标和内容：2)完善和修改现有的试点网站，并为基本课程的每个单元开发和制作插图、动画和临床案例研究；3)为基本课程的每个单元开发和制作遗传咨询视频剪辑，以说明癌症遗传学临床评估的伦理、法律和社会复杂性；评价基础课程对医学生学习目标掌握情况的影响。我们的方法是独一无二的，因为它将是医学生的第一门基于互联网的临床癌症遗传学课程，并将通过视频剪辑“实时”强调围绕癌症遗传学咨询的复杂咨询问题。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The revolution in cancer genetics has changed clinical practice for at-risk populations. Physicians are ill equipped to provide up-to-date cancer genetic information to their patients due to a lack of education and experience. In order to improve the education of future physicians in their formative years of instruction, we will develop a dynamic multimedia electronic curriculum at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) School of Medicine. The goal of the project is to produce a unique electronic-based cancer genetics medical school curriculum, entitled Essentials of Clinical Cancer Genetics. It will provide up-to-date, clinically relevant information regarding the principles of cancer genetics, their application to clinical practice, genetic counseling, and patient care as well as addressing ethical, legal and social issues inherent in counseling for cancer genetics. The Essentials will be a stand-alone course imbedded and supported by the Internet-based CWRU School of Medicine integrated electronic curriculum (IEC) and will be easily accessible to students in medicine, nursing, genetic counseling, genetics and other related fields. In the future, the curriculum would be available to others in a CD-ROM format. The specific aims of the project are fourfold and form the foundation of an interdisciplinary teaching approach to provide students with an understanding of the complex human problem of clinical cancer genetics: 1) to expand and refine specific learning objectives and content for each unit of an innovative Internet-based clinical cancer genetics curriculum for medical and other health professional students: 2) to refine and revise the existing pilot Essentials Internet site and develop and produce illustrations, animations, and clinical case studies for each unit of the Essentials curriculum; 3) to develop and produce genetic counseling video clips for each unit of the Essentials curriculum that will illustrate the ethical, legal and social complexities of a cancer genetics clinical evaluation; and 4) to evaluate the effect of the Essentials curriculum on medical students' mastery of the learning objectives. Our approach is unique in that it will be the first Internet-based clinical cancer genetics course for medical students and will emphasize in "real time" via video clips, complex counseling issues surrounding counseling for cancer genetics.