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充分证明缺乏遗传学教育的问题，这是遗传学和基因组学融入主流卫生保健的一个限制步骤。这个为期五年的项目将为未受过遗传学培训的保健专业人员创建、传播和评估一套教育资源。这些资源将使卫生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，并将提高对基于基因的卫生保健的伦理、法律和社会影响的认识。所有的资源都是免费的。

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.