Executive Certificate of Clinical Perspective In Precision Medicine
Training Provider: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE
Course Reference: TGS-2024047693
S$5,400
About This Course
By the end of the course, the student will:
- Know how prevalent genetic disorders are in the population
- Know how patients present to doctors (symptomatic, pre-symptomatic, asymptomatic)
- Know how doctors diagnose patients (history, family history, physical examination, clinical criteria, tests)
- Know how clinical genetic and genomic tests are employed in clinical practice
- Know how clinical genetic and genomic test reports look like and how to interpret them
- Know how genetic counselling is applied in clinical practice
- Know how genetic conditions are treated
- Know the promises and potential pitfalls in clinical genetics and genomics
What You'll Learn
This course will cover several Clinical Perspectives in Precision Medicine i.e. the patient journey, the current state, the promises and the potential pitfalls.
Course Outline:
- Types of genetic disorders in the population
- Diagnostic Odyssey
- How patients present
- Why it is important to make a diagnosis
- How to make a diagnosis
- Clinical genetic test
- General principles of treatment
- Introduction to genetic counselling
- Psychosocial support
- Ethical, Legal, Social aspects
- Promises and Pitfalls
- Research: Bringing bench to bedside and vice versa
- Overview of precision medicine in population health
Course Outline:
- Types of genetic disorders in the population
- Diagnostic Odyssey
- How patients present
- Why it is important to make a diagnosis
- How to make a diagnosis
- Clinical genetic test
- General principles of treatment
- Introduction to genetic counselling
- Psychosocial support
- Ethical, Legal, Social aspects
- Promises and Pitfalls
- Research: Bringing bench to bedside and vice versa
- Overview of precision medicine in population health
Entry Requirements
Student must have taken the core course Human Genomics in Precision Medicine.
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