Genomic Medicine University of Cambridge

Overview

The overall aims of the Genomic Medicine programme from the University of Cambridge are to:

• develop and create a cohort of doctors and other professionals allied to medicine able to pursue and develop their roles in the rapidly changing and challenging environment of genomic medicine

• prepare healthcare professionals for the adoption of genomic technologies and the increasing use of genomic information as part of the diagnostic and treatment pathway

• develop a cohort of doctors and other professionals allied to medicine with the confidence to lead service improvement for safe and high-quality patient care, and with the required knowledge, skills and capability to have a positive personal impact on the work of others

• develop a cohort of doctors and other professionals allied to medicine with an understanding of research methodologies and clinical opportunities relevant to genomic medicine

• encourage a commitment to intellectual challenge and evidence-based clinical practice informed by the latest conceptual and theoretical knowledge of genomic medicine

• develop students' intellectual, practical and transferable skills related to genomic medicine

• encourage critical thinking related to genomic medicine

• conduct systematic research relevant to their professional practice

Key facts:

The over-arching learning outcomes are as follows.Knowledge and understanding

• To enhance  students’ knowledge and critical understanding of recent developments in genomic medicine relevant to their present and future roles.
• To enable deployment of new knowledge in their clinical practice, and to have a positive personal impact on the work of others in their clinical team and wider service.

• To develop an understanding of genomic technologies and to be able to use genomic information as part of the diagnostic and treatment pathway.

• To develop students’ knowledge so that they have the confidence to lead service improvement for safe and high-quality patient care.

• To update and extend students’ understanding of research methodologies and clinical opportunities.

• To demonstrate knowledge, abilities and skills to engage in focused, professionally relevant, independent learning, and through the production of a dissertation.

Skills and other attributes

• The skills necessary to locate, read, interpret and analyse primary and secondary sources of material enabling the development of a conceptual and theoretical understanding of recent developments in genomic medicine.

• Skills to evaluate current scholarship and research critically and to place this knowledge within the context of their own situation and practice as clinical leaders.

• The ability to formulate a research topic relevant to their clinical context, to collect and analyse primary and/or secondary sources of data, and to undertake professionally relevant research.

• The facility to communicate the results of their ideas, research and its conclusions in a written form acceptable as a work of scholarship potentially publishable in a professional or academic journal.