Webbased Genetics Content for All Health Professionals

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Web-based Genetics Content for All Health
Professionals
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Current Situation

• What we have
• Core competencies
• Targeted education programs
• Subject-centered programs (common disease,
  psychiatric disorders, race and genetics)
• What we need input on
• Content
• Audience
• Format

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Core Competencies Principles

• Core Competencies for all Health Care
  Professionals
• Competencies in Family History
• Core Principles in Genetics
• Principles of Genetics in the Context of Common
  Disease

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Competencies Next Steps

• Tie existing NCHPEG programs to competencies
• NCHPEG
• Nurses
• Physician Assistants
• Public Health Providers
• Identify content gaps in current NCHPEG programs

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Educational Programs

• Targeted Education Programs
• Genetics, Disease, and Dentistry
• Genetics in the Physician Assistants Practice
• Genetics in the Practice of Speech-Language
  Pathology and Audiology
• NUTRITION AND GENETICS Key concepts and clinical
  scenarios for Dietetic educators and
  practitioners in the US UK
• Subject-Centered Programs
• Genetics and Major Psychiatric Disorders (genetic
  counselors)
• Genetics and Common Disorders (public health and
  primary care)
• Genetics Is Relevant Now Nurses views and
  patients stories
• Race, Genetics, and Healthcare (primary care)
• Genetics and Colorectal Cancer (primary care)
• Other
• Access to Credible Genetics Quality Assessment
  Toolbox (consumers and health professionals)
• Genetics for Social and Behavioral Science
  Researchers

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Content Areas

• Basic genetic structure
• Family History
• Inheritance
• Genetic Testing
• Risk Assessment
• Referral Collaboration
• Ethics

• Evaluating genetics research
• Gene-environment interplay
• Race and Genetics
• Variation
• Common disease

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Family History
Match patient narratives to pedigrees
Match pedigree symbol names to their symbols
Identify red flags
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Family History
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Patterns of Inheritance
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Complex Disease
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Ethical Issues

• Genetic testing in children
• Deaf community and genetic testing
• Informed consent
• Privacy, confidentiality, and discrimination
• Duty to warn
• Access to genetic services
• Psychosocial considerations

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Case Studies

• Stickler syndrome
• 22q11 deletion syndrome
• Connexin 26
• Familial hypercholesterolemia
• Factor V Leiden
• Fragile X syndrome
• Gorlin syndrome

• Diabetes
• Dentinogenesis imperfecta
• Colorectal cancer
• Thrombophilia
• Obesity
• Breast cancer
• Tobacco
• Major depression

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Content Next Steps

• Advisory group of NCHPEG members
• Collating different versions of core concepts
• Identify gaps
• Core competencies
• Member and community needs
• Prioritize content development

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Thoughts? Questions? Needs?

• Kate Reed
• kreed_at_nchpeg.org

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Audiences

• Targeted Education Programs
• Family Practice
• Dentists
• Speech Language Pathologists and Audiologists
• Physician Assistants
• Dieticians
• Educational Programs
• Genetic Counselors
• Public Health Professionals
• Primary Care Providers
• Nurses
• Social and Behavioral Science Researchers
• Gastroenterologists

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Audience Next Steps

• Who are we missing?
• What disciplines are ready to go? (how do we
  decide)
• How do we choose?