Essential Clinical Cancer Genetics Internet Curriculum

描述（由申请人提供）：癌症遗传学的革命改变了高危人群的临床实践。 由于缺乏教育和经验，医生无法向患者提供最新的癌症遗传信息。 为了提高未来的医生在他们的教育形成年的教育，我们将开发一个动态的多媒体电子课程在凯斯西储大学（CWRU）医学院。 该项目的目标是制作一个独特的基于电子的癌症遗传学医学院课程，题为临床癌症遗传学的要点。 它将提供有关癌症遗传学原理的最新临床相关信息，其在临床实践中的应用，遗传咨询和患者护理，以及解决癌症遗传学咨询中固有的伦理，法律的和社会问题。 该要领将是一个独立的课程嵌入和基于互联网的CWRU医学院综合电子课程（IEC）的支持，并将很容易访问医学，护理，遗传咨询，遗传学和其他相关领域的学生。 今后，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，并形成跨学科教学方法的基础，为学生提供临床癌症遗传学的复杂人类问题的理解：1）为医学和其他健康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）完善和修订现有的试点要领互联网网站，并为要领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，以说明道德，癌症遗传学临床评估的法律的和社会的复杂性;和4）评估基础课程对医学生掌握学习目标的影响。 我们的方法是独特的，因为它将是第一个基于互联网的临床癌症遗传学课程的医学生，并将强调在“真实的时间”通过视频剪辑，复杂的咨询问题周围的癌症遗传学咨询。

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.