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Group Drafts Core Curriculum for ‘What Docs Need to Know About Genetics'
Joan Stephenson, PhD
JAMA. 1998;279:735-736.
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AS HUMAN GENOME Project researchers race to complete the mapping and sequencing of all human genes before the target date of 2005, geneticists and education experts are pursuing a pressing goal of their own: helping physicians whose training included little background in genetics to incorporate genome research findings into clinical practice.
To this end, a working group of board-certified clinical geneticists and specialists in curriculum development convened by the National Center for Genome Resources (NCGR), Santa Fe, NM, has drafted guidelines for a core curriculum for practicing physicians that makes recommendations for specific content areas about which all physicians need to be knowledgeable.
"Physicians must be familiar with ‘red flags' that identify individuals who could potentially benefit from information about their genetic risks," the group notes. Particularly critical is the need "to teach physicians to identify features of conditions for which effective measures exist to prevent premature . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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