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    Educating the Workforce: Today and Tomorrow

    As a thought leader in individualized medicine, Mayo Clinic delivers precision medicine education for today's health care teams and develops the field's workforce of the future through opportunities for undergraduate students, medical school and graduate students, residents, and fellows.

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    Leading Change With Pharmacogenomics

    Mayo Clinic's online course in pharmacogenomics teaches how pharmacogenomics testing can make an impact in clinical practice. Topics include fundamentals of pharmacogenomics, how to interpret test results and tips on how to start using pharmacogenomics in your practice. Learn more and register for the pharmacogenomics program.

  • Advancing Care Through Genomics Webinar Series

    The impact of genomics and individualized medicine on clinical practice continuously evolves. Keep up with the latest science by tuning into the Center for Individualized Medicine's Advancing Care Through Genomics Virtual Speaker Series. Watch a speaker series webinar.

  • Genes & Your Health podcast

    The Genes & Your Health podcast miniseries distills the latest concepts in genetics that are essential to providing the best care for patients. Join us as we discuss how primary care providers and health care teams can apply this information to individualize and optimize care of patients in their own practices. Listen for free or register to claim CME credit.

Education

Education integrated in practice

Center for Individualized Medicine uses a comprehensive approach to delivering genomic education and training in new precision medicine tools and applications for clinical practice. Ongoing implementation research helps the center team study the systematic adoption of educational interventions and enhance effectiveness.

Educating Mayo Clinic health care teams

The Center for Individualized Medicine has developed education and training materials that are available to Mayo Clinic experts at the bedside, allowing them to actively apply the latest genomic information to care for individual patients. Internally, sessions like Grand Rounds educate internal health care teams regarding new opportunities to apply genomics in clinical practice.

Education at the point of care includes real-time access to clinical decision-support rules in the electronic medical record regarding drug-gene interactions. Additionally, Mayo Clinic genetic counselors use point-of-care decision aids in genomic counseling sessions, providing support to patients making decisions about genomic testing.

Denise M. Dupras, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Director — Education

My love for learning started early, as a kid. I always loved science and mysteries. Science was one of my favorite subjects. My teachers said I was the only one who could be an astrophysicist.

Even into college, medicine wasn't on my radar, despite being told it should be. I majored in computer science my first year, but after spending a summer working in my dad's pharmacy, I recognized that I needed to work with people. I didn't think I wanted to follow in his footsteps until that summer. I changed my major to pharmacy and, after thinking about where I could make the most difference, decided to pursue medicine. I was accepted into Mayo Clinic’s first M.D.-Ph.D. class and combined my interest in medicine and pharmacology.

Dr. Richard Weinshilboum was one of my mentors. My Ph.D. project focused on pharmacogenetic drug interactions and drug metabolism. At that time, pharmacogenomics was not a word in my vocabulary, but it was on the horizon. As a lifelong learner and strong advocate of evidence-based medicine, it was inevitable that as the field of individualized medicine evolved, I was going to embrace it as a way to provide the best medicine for my patients.

As an internal medicine physician and educator, working with patients and discussing pharmacogenomics in genomics is the perfect blend. I'm fond of saying when I talked with Dr. Weinshilboum, that the idiosyncratic responses that were mysteries in the past were probably just gene-drug interactions we didn't yet know about.

Advancing care through genomics worldwide

The Center for Individualized Medicine is dedicated to advancing knowledge about genomic medicine for people everywhere, not only at Mayo Clinic. The center provides education and information for patients, collaborators and scientists.

Animations and videos bring genomics to life.

The Individualized Medicine Blog is a rich source of up-to-the-minute news on scientific breakthroughs, meet-the-researcher, patient stories and more.

Additionally, the center includes the patient's voice in its work with community advisory boards. These diverse boards represent members of the local communities and engage the public in understanding personalized medicine, asking questions, sharing concerns and providing guidance on precision medicine topics.

Program leaders

  • Timothy B. Curry, M.D., Ph.D.
    Director
  • Denise M. Dupras, M.D., Ph.D.
    Associate Director, Minnesota
  • Mira T. Keddis, M.D.
    Associate Director, Arizona
  • William C. Palmer, M.D.
    Associate Director, Florida

For Health Care Teams

The Mayo Clinic Center for Individualized Medicine helps health care teams apply genomic knowledge to patient care through an annual conference, online continuing professional development, an online pharmacogenomics certificate course, podcasts and webinars.

For Researchers

Individualized medicine education for researchers includes graduate-level courses, a clinician-investigator program, career development awards and other opportunities.

For Students

Mayo Clinic is building the individualized medicine workforce of the future through education and training for undergraduates, medical school and graduate students, graduate medical education, and allied health staff.

Career Development Awards

The Gerstner Family Career Development Awards promote a specialized workforce for individualized medicine discovery, translation and application. Awards aid exceptional investigators at Mayo Clinic committed to individualized medicine research, helping to establish their credentials as highly productive researchers.

Careers in Individualized Medicine: Bioinformatician

In this video, Asha A. Nair, Ph.D., explains how her career as a Mayo Clinic bioinformatician combines her medical knowledge and engineering skills to fulfill her passion for helping patient care by supporting biomedical researchers.

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Pharmacogenomics Certificate

In this video, Richard Weinshilboum, M.D., introduces Mayo Clinic's online "Pharmacogenomics for Your Practice" certificate course. The course includes foundational pharmacogenomics information for all medical professionals with an emphasis on practical cases for implementation.

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