New Program To Help Physicians Understand Role Of DNA-Based Preventive Medicine

I have posted a couple resources here too from past articles, Navigenics has from the beginning focused their DNA and genomic sequencing in the area of physicians versus consumer retail selling methods. This is an important area as some knowledge is certainly better than none and integrating the clinical and scientific areas will be a challenge, but at least an awareness of what DNA sequencing can provide is one big step forward. BD

American College of Preventive Medicine (ACPM) and Navigenics, Inc. today announced a medical education program designed to improve physicians' understanding of genetic risk factors for disease, the current evidence about the use of genomic tools and technologies to determine risk, and promising practices for utilizing those tools to aid in disease prevention.

Through an unrestricted educational grant from Navigenics, ACPM is independently developing this continuing medical education (CME) course, titled Genetic Risk, Screening and Intervention, to address the growing use of genetic testing services and to examine their evidence-based impact on the practice of medicine.

From a prior post: Other resources

The Genetic Counseling Foundation has been established that could offer both physicians and patients a bit more background and how the process is progressing and where genetic testing could be applicable as well and help with some of the confusion here. In the family practice office, there is not a lot of time for research and study with the heavy flow patients a normal physicians sees in a day