Educational challenges in implementing genomic medicine

Abstract

Clinical medicine is about to embark on an exciting, although harrowing, period of innovation, the result of astonishing advances in genomic science. The current workforce--physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and others--will soon need to adapt to substantial change, driven by genomics, in diagnostic and therapeutic strategies. If errors of omission and commission are to be prevented, sustained efforts in workforce education will be needed on the part of medical schools, training programs, and professional societies.