GENE 370
Clinical Cancer Genomics

This course provides a foundation of knowledge and skills in the multidisciplinary specialty practice of genetic cancer risk assessment and counseling. Genetic cancer risk assessment is an interdisciplinary standard-of-care practice that uses a growing arsenal of genetic and genomic tools and empiric risk models to provide precision prevention and management for individuals and their families. Identifying hereditary cancer predisposition through genetic/genomic cancer risk assessment allows for intensified measures to prevent cancers or detect them at an earlier, more treatable stage, and both germ line and somatic/tumor testing may guide precision cancer therapies. The course design is a blended, flipped-classroom model that combines recorded core distance-learning didactic modules developed by recognized experts in the field of cancer genomics with topic-specific discussion board engagement between learners and faculty, and weekly face-to-face application of new knowledge into practice through individual and team-centered case-based learning and cancer risk counseling skills development.

GENE 310