Genomic Medicine and Healthcare (Online)

Overview

The benefits of personalised or precision medicine include the option for reproductive choices and reducing lifetime medical or health risks by judicious use of new emerging preventive medicines and devices combined with lifestyle/behaviour modifications.

Our part-time Postgraduate Diploma in Genomic Medicine aims to equip graduates with critical knowledge and understanding of genomic medicine. Graduates will be able to apply knowledge for direct clinical benefit and future study. Our distance learning genetics course also caters to the educational needs of primary and secondary care health professionals, and is the only university-validated course of its kind that is completely accessible online.

On completion of the Postgraduate Diploma in Genomic Medicine and Healthcare (Online) from Diploma MSc you will demonstrate:

• A systematic understanding of genetics and genomic factors in human diseases.
• A critical awareness of current issues affecting the management of inherited human diseases.
• An advanced knowledge of clinical genomics that will facilitate decision-making in unpredictable and/or complex situations.
• An ability to critically evaluate current research in applied and translational genetics and genomics.
• An ability to deliver management strategies for the investigation and treatment of patients with inherited human diseases.
• A basic understanding of the scope and effect of genomics on treatments including horizon scanning of potential new targeted treatments for the wider population.

Accreditation

This diploma is fully accredited and awarded by the University of South Wales.