This course will provide you with the key knowledge and tools to understand the fundamentals and practical implications of precision medicine, its opportunities and challenges. It will address precision-medicine era diagnostics, treatment selection, genetic counseling, public health interventions, and biomedical research. It will also deal with data science and ethical issues.
Precision Medicine
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Intermediate level
Some related experience required
Flexible schedule
3 weeks at 10 hours a week
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Skills you'll gain
- Drug Development
- Data Ethics
- Patient Education And Counseling
- Biostatistics
- Precision Medicine
- Bioinformatics
- General Medicine
- Molecular Biology
- Clinical Research
- Pharmaceuticals
- Pharmacology
- Biomedical Technology
- Oncology
- Informed Consent
- Diagnostic Tests
- Health Informatics
- Clinical Research Ethics
- Health Policy
- Healthcare Ethics
- Primary Care
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Taught in English
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KB
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Reviewed on Dec 8, 2024
An interesting and informative course, as a pathophysiologist I learned a lot that can be applied in teaching.
FH
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Reviewed on Aug 15, 2022
in this course i have been open minded about how most of treatement are taken as for all which is very wrong and i have understood that each person is unquie.
AH
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Reviewed on May 2, 2023
It's a very comprehensive course.
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