Genetics Educaiton: Resources for Health Professionals

描述（由申请人提供）：拟议项目的目标是解决卫生专业人员中缺乏遗传学教育的问题，这是将遗传学和基因组学纳入主流医疗保健的限速步骤。这个为期五年的项目将为没有接受过遗传学培训的卫生专业人员创建、传播和评估一套教育资源。这些资源将使保健专业人员熟悉遗传学和基因组学在预防、诊断和治疗疾病方面的应用，并将提高对基于遗传的保健的伦理、法律的和社会影响的认识。所有资源都将免费提供。 具体目标是： 1.创建，传播和评估科学准确和临床相关的遗传学教育资源，提高对ELSI问题的认识，并免费供学生，教师和卫生专业从业人员使用。 2.提供一个基础设施，利用集体专门知识，提高对遗传学在主流医学中的作用的认识，并减少保健专业人员遗传学教育方面的重复努力。 研究设计和方法将采用一个经过充分测试的过程，为成人学习者的教育材料的开发和评估。该过程旨在最大限度地提高内容专家和最终用户的投入，并帮助确保所产生的资源1）科学准确，2）临床相关，3）教育有效，4）不明显重复其他工作。 该项目与公共卫生的相关性在于提高卫生专业人员对遗传学和基因组学及其在健康，疾病和临床实践中的应用的理解。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of the proposed project is to address a well-documented lack of genetics education among health professionals, which is a rate-limiting step in the integration of genetics and genomics into mainstream health care. The five-year project will create, disseminate, and evaluate a set of educational resources for health professionals who are not trained in genetics. Those resources will acquaint health professionals with the application of genetics and genomics to prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of disease and will raise awareness of the ethical, legal, and social implications of genetically based health care. All resources will be available free of charge. The specific aims are: 1. Create, disseminate, and evaluate genetics-education resources that are scientifically accurate and clinically relevant, increase awareness of ELSI issues, and are freely available for use by students, faculty, and practitioners in the health professions. 2. Provide an infrastructure that will leverage collective expertise to raise awareness of the role of genetics in mainstream medicine and reduce duplication of effort in genetics education for health-care professionals. The research design and methods will employ a well-tested process for development and evaluation of educational materials for adult learners. The process is intended to maximize input from content experts and the end users and to help ensure that the resulting resources are 1) scientifically accurate, 2) clinically relevant, 3) educationally effective, and 4) not significantly duplicative of other efforts. The project's relevance to public health is in the improved understand of health professionals about genetics and genomics and their applications to health, disease, and clinical practice.