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British Medical Bulletin 55:460-470 (1999)
© 1999 The British Council

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The impact of genetics on medical education and training

Robin Fears*,, David Weatherall{dagger} and George Poste*

*Smith Kline Beecham Pharmaceuticals Essex, UK
{dagger}Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford Oxford, UK

Correspondence to: Dr Robin Fears, Smith Kline Beecham Pharmaceuticals, New Frontiers Science Park, Harlow, Essex CM19 5AW, UK

Abstract

This paper explores, mainly from the UK perspective, some of the issues relating to the current, and potential, impact of advances in genetics and molecular biology on the education and research training of healthcare professionals. We start by describing some of the expectations for progress in the use of genomic techologies and genetic data in healthcare delivery and the need for policy development to ensure timely translation of advances in science and techonology into improved patient care. We review briefly the likely evolution of clinical genetics service provision to build the requisite scientific basis in primary care and explore how user needs could be addressed. Strategic issues for the future medical curriculum are introduced and linked with the concerns about the current status of clinical academic research. The issues for research training, career progression, nurturing of research ‘at the bedside’, definition of the research agends and weaknesses in both academic infrastructure and support costs are reviewed in the context of the urgent imperative for medicine to harness the accelerating pace of progress in genomics.


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