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GMED5003: Advanced Genomics in Clinical Practice
2024 unit information
Major advances and mainstreaming in genomics are impacting all specialty areas of medicine, leading to new approaches in diagnosis and management across a large range of conditions. This unit provides contemporary knowledge of these advances in many key subspecialty areas such as neurology, nephrology, cardiology, ophthalmology, and paediatric genomics. This unit is for the advanced level non-genetics professional, aimed at providing the skills and understanding to be able to implement genomics in their own field of medicine, and understand the latest trends and approaches to genomic medicine. Students will gain a sophisticated knowledge and understanding of the integration of genomic and disease-specific clinical knowledge for optimum management, in a multidisciplinary approach with genetic counselling, bioinformatics, and molecular genetics. Case based multidisciplinary approaches will be used to develop skills to analyse the genetic and genomic literature in the context of disease-specific features and the clinical situation, to provide the most appropriate and timely diagnostic and genetic risk information for patients and families. System and disease-specific advances in management of genetic conditions will be a focus including use of precision pharmacological and genetic therapies. There will also be an emphasis on the counselling and ethical issues of genomics, with input from consumer groups, education, health policy, and indigenous genomics experts.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Medicine and Health
| Study level | Postgraduate |
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| Academic unit | Genomic Medicine |
| Credit points | 6 |
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This unit of study assumes knowledge equivalent to GMED5001. It is strongly recommended that students who lack a good working knowledge of genomics complete GMED5001 before enrolling in this unit |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. Evaluate the role of genomic diagnostics, and how to order, interpret and explain genomic testing in the clinical setting
- LO2. Examine the complex counselling, ethical and legal aspects of genomics, including the role of genetic counsellors, and the perspectives of patients and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities
- LO3. Appraise the multidisciplinary team and functional genomics approaches for interpretation of genomic results, especially for variants of uncertain significance and novel genes
- LO4. Evaluate the genomic approach in specific clinical subspecialty settings such as renal, ophthalmic, cardiac, and neurology.
- LO5. Demonstrate how recent advances in genomics have had an impact on rare diseases, population genomics, congenital abnormalities, post-mortem, and neonatal settings
- LO6. Assess how genomics is paving the way to precision medicine with gene specific therapies, pharmacogenomics, and pathogen genomics
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