Genetic counseling/personalized medicine

“What can be accomplished today is educating trainees on the tenets of genetic counseling, the challenges of interpreting complex genetic data, and more effective ways of communicating data of unknown significance. . . . As medical schools develop curricula for personalized medicine, the key objectives for learning are not the technology but developing the communication skills needed to discuss complex genomic test results.” Re curricula addressing personalized medicine “Pharmacogenomics has been the major focus area to date; 84% of medical schools in the United Kingdom and 74% of U.S. and Canadian medical schools include pharmacogenomics in their curricula” (Cornetta & Brown, 3)