Pre-graduate and post-graduate education in personalized medicine in the Czech Republic: statistics, analysis and recommendations

EPMA Journal

Ondrej Topolcan²  Marie Karlikova²  Jiri Polivka¹  Jiri Polivka³ 

[1] Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine in Pilsen, Charles University in Prague and Faculty Hospital in Pilsen, alej Svobody 80, Pilsen 304 60, Czech Republic;Central Immunoanalytical Laboratory, Faculty Hospital in Pilsen, alej Svobody 80, Pilsen 304 60, Czech Republic;Biomedical Centre, Faculty of Medicine in Pilsen, Charles University in Prague, Husova 3, Pilsen 301 66, Czech Republic

关键词: Recommendations;    EPMA;    Educational tools;    Training;    Statistics;    Preventive and personalized medicine;    Predictive;   

Others  :  1136519
DOI  :  10.1186/1878-5085-5-22

 received in 2014-08-31, accepted in 2014-11-17,  发布年份 2014

【 摘 要 】

The main goal of personalized medicine is the individualized approach to the patient’s treatment. It could be achieved only by the integration of the complexity of novel findings in diverse “omics” disciplines, new methods of medical imaging, as well as implementation of reliable biomarkers into the medical care. The implementation of personalized medicine into clinical practice is dependent on the adaptation of pre-graduate and post-graduate medical education to these principles. The situation in the education of personalized medicine in the Czech Republic is analyzed together with novel educational tools that are currently established in our country. The EPMA representatives in the Czech Republic in cooperation with the working group of professionals at the Faculty of Medicine in Pilsen, Charles University in Prague have implemented the survey of personalized medicine awareness among students of Faculty of Medicine in Pilsen—the “Personalized Medicine Questionnaire”. The results showed lacking knowledge of personalized medicine principles and students’ will of education in this domain. Therefore, several educational activities addressed particularly to medical students and young physicians were realized at our facility with very positive evaluation. These educational activities (conferences, workshops, seminars, e-learning and special courses in personalized medicine (PM)) will be a part of pre-graduate and post-graduate medical education, will be extended to other medical faculties in our country. The “Summer School of Personalized Medicine in Plzen 2015” will be organized at the Faculty of Medicine and Faculty Hospital in Pilsen as the first event on this topic in the Czech Republic.

【 授权许可】

   
2014 Polivka et al.; licensee BioMed Central.

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