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7 Workforce Development
Pages 53-56

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... The preparation of the health care workforce to deal with genomic information will be vital, and the precise details of that development will depend on how the genomic information will be used, said Bruce Korf of the University of Alabama at Birmingham. This use in turn will hinge on two questions: What can be learned from whole-genome sequencing that will contribute to medical care?
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... These lists, Korf said, provide a starting point for thinking about the competencies that different health care providers should have. Health care competencies for genomic medicine will need to extend from pre-health professionals to the health professions.
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... that will integrate into their careers." The University of Alabama at Birmingham has been pursuing a personalized health care competencies project, which is divided into the areas of genomics, pharmacogenetics, informatics, and culture and the environment. Competencies have been defined for undergraduates with the goals of helping them make better health care decisions and attracting some of them into health care careers.
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... "I don't know that consumer genomics is the answer," Korf said, "but I think there has to be an answer that is going to make it possible to provide the information, and it is going to have to be more than just looking something up on a website." Creative thinking will be essential as health care is transformed by technology. As computer scientist Alan Kay once said, the best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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