If you teach family medicine in the classroom or your office, chances are medical students and residents have questioned you about genetics. You actually may be teaching genetics without intending to.
Evaluate Clinical Tools for Teaching Genetics
By News Staff
8/25/2005
Now you have a source for more information. Genetic Tools: Genetics Through a Primary Care Lens offers 41 clinical cases and other teaching tools. Although the site won’t officially launch until October, materials are available online now for review and comment through late September.
Areas the cases target include cancers, cardiovascular disease, cystic fibrosis, dementia, developmental delay and diabetes mellitus. For each case, an introduction provides a summary, learning objectives, family history issues and a discussion of risk factors.
Areas the cases target include cancers, cardiovascular disease, cystic fibrosis, dementia, developmental delay and diabetes mellitus. For each case, an introduction provides a summary, learning objectives, family history issues and a discussion of risk factors.
In addition, the Web site's "Genetics Concepts & Skills" section covers topics such as modes of inheritance; red flags for a genetic diagnosis; genetic tests; and ethical, legal, social and cultural issues. To help you identify red flags, the section suggests trying the mnemonic Family GENES, meaning Family history, Group of congenital anomalies, Extreme or exceptional presentation of common conditions, Neurodevelopmental delay or degeneration, Extreme or exceptional pathology, and Surprising laboratory values.
Genetic Tools builds on Genetics in Primary Care: A Faculty Development Initiative, administered from 1998 to 2001 by the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine. Like Genetics in Primary Care, the new Genetic Tools project is funded in part by the Health Resources and Services Administration's Maternal and Child Health Bureau. The University of Washington, Seattle, is administering the Genetic Tools site.
Users checking out the site can take a three-minute exit survey that lists AAFP as one of the sources for where they heard about the site. The Academy is giving family physicians CME materials on genetics through the Annual Clinical Focus 2005 Genomics, specifically through such resources as the ACF Genomics CME Video Series.
Genetic Tools builds on Genetics in Primary Care: A Faculty Development Initiative, administered from 1998 to 2001 by the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine. Like Genetics in Primary Care, the new Genetic Tools project is funded in part by the Health Resources and Services Administration's Maternal and Child Health Bureau. The University of Washington, Seattle, is administering the Genetic Tools site.
Users checking out the site can take a three-minute exit survey that lists AAFP as one of the sources for where they heard about the site. The Academy is giving family physicians CME materials on genetics through the Annual Clinical Focus 2005 Genomics, specifically through such resources as the ACF Genomics CME Video Series.
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