Healthcare Provider Genomics Education Resources

These resources can be used in the clinical setting, both for the non-genetics and genetics provider.

• Inter-Society Coordinating Committee for Practitioner Education in Genomics (ISCC-PEG) 
  Healthcare providers, educators and society representatives furthering professional genomics education through in-person gatherings and regular calls.
   
• Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing FAQ for Healthcare Professionals
  The Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing (DTC-GT) Project Group of the ISCC-PEG has created a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) resource designed for the general clinician who may see patients requesting guidance on DTC-GT. This FAQ is intended to help healthcare professionals understand the diverse landscape of DTC-GT, the benefits and limitations of these tests and how results of DTC-GT may affect their patients’ health, wellness and medical decision making.
   
• Method for Introducing a New Competency: Genomics (MINC) 
  Toolkit for integrating genomics into clinical practice.
   
• My Family Health Portrait 
  Web-based tool to create a family pedigree with health information for patients and their providers to identify patterns of inheritance and identify risk factors.
   
• Guide to Interpreting Genomic Reports: A Genomics Toolkit (CSER Consortium; February 2017) 
  Guide for non-genetics practitioners to explain the different types of data found in whole genome sequencing or whole exome sequencing test reports, created by the Practitioner Education Working Group of the NHGRI Clinical Sequencing Exploratory Research consortium. It explains different categories in the test report (diagnostic, incidental or carrier) and provides next steps. There is also an embedded glossary of genomic terms.
   
• Clinical Genome Resource (ClinGen) 
  Resource that collects phenotypic and clinical information on variants across the genome, develops consensus approaches to identifying their clinical relevance and disseminates this information to researchers and clinicians. It will advance genomics in clinical care and improve our understanding of the phenotypic and functional effects of genetic variants and their clinical value.
   
• Clinical Pharmacogenetics Implementation Consortium (CPIC®) 
  An international consortium facilitating use of pharmacogenetic tests for patient care. CPIC’s goal is to address the difficulty in translating genetic laboratory test results into actionable prescribing decisions for affected drugs by creating, curating and posting freely available, peer-reviewed, evidence-based, updatable and detailed gene/drug clinical practice guidelines.

These resources include professional genomic competencies required for specific disciplines and teaching resources for the virtual or in-person classroom.

• Inter-Society Coordinating Committee for Practitioner Education in Genomics (ISCC-PEG) 
  Healthcare providers, educators and society representatives furthering professional genomics education through in-person gatherings and regular calls.
   
• Genetics/Genomics Competency Center (G2C2) 
  Online repository of genomics educational materials, peer-reviewed by and for genetic counselors, nurses, pharmacists, physician assistants, physicians and their educators. All resources are mapped to discipline-specific competencies to aid in the development of curricula.
   
• Global Genetics and Genomics Community (G3C) Collection of unfolding video genetic and genomic case studies for use with students and practicing healthcare providers learning basic genetic and genomic concepts.
   

Discipline-specific guidance and resources for genomics educators

Physicians

• Framework for development of physician competencies in genomic medicine: report of the Competencies Working Group of the Inter-Society Coordinating Committee for Physician Education in Genomics
  Published guidance for physicians and their educators that establishes genomics practice competencies for physicians in various medical disciplines. These competencies consist of a basic set of genomic skills to support family history, genomic testing, treatment based on genomic results, somatic genomics and microbial genomic information.
   

Nursing and Physician Assistants

• Essentials of Genetic and Genomic Nursing: Competencies, Curricula Guidelines, and Outcome Indicators, 2nd Edition - 2009
  Establishes the minimum basis with which to prepare the nursing workforce to deliver competent genetic and genomic focused nursing case. Additionally, defines for each competency the essential knowledge elements and suggested practice indicators.
   
• Essential Genetic and Genomic Competencies for Nurses with Graduate Degrees - September 2011
  This document provides the essential genetic and genomic competencies for nurses prepared at the graduate level. These competencies apply to any graduate level nurse including but not limited to advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs), clinical nurse leaders, nurse educators, nurse administrators, and nurse scientists. The APRN role has a different legal scope of practice so some competencies have been identified as unique to APRNs. These competencies assume that nurses with graduate degrees have already achieved core competencies provided in the Essentials of Genetic and Genomic Nursing: Competencies, Curricula Guidelines and Outcome Indicators (Consensus Panel, 2009). 
   
• Genomic Nursing Competency Implementation Strategic Plan
  Options, opportunities, strategies, partners and collaborators that will result in improved health of the public with awareness and use of genomics by nursing.
   
• A Blueprint for Genomic Nursing Science
  Provides the framework for furthering genomic nursing science to improve health outcomes and targets research to build the evidence base to inform integration of genomics into nursing practice and regulation.
   
• Genomic Nursing Science Blueprint: Next Steps Meeting Summary and Notes
  Provides insights regarding identified researcher resources and gaps, exemplar models to be considered as a framework to support research, and platform options for promotion of genomic nursing research and collaboration.
   
• Summer Genetics Institute (SGI)
  A one-month intensive research training program at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), sponsored by the National Institute of Nursing Research, that provides a foundation in molecular genetics for use in research and clinical practice.
   
• Physician Assistants and Genomic Medicine Meeting Summary
  The goals of this meeting were to share genetic and genomic information, identify gaps and how to close them, discuss education of physician assistants in genomics for healthcare, and plan next steps.

• Insurers Webinar Series
  Genetic testing strategies, interpretations, outcomes and patient care for use by insurers and their teams to make sound decisions regarding genomic healthcare of their insured.
   
• Omics Nursing Science & Education Network (ONSEN)
  Collaborative research and training website

Definitions of Genetic Terms

• Genetics Home Reference
• Talking Glossary of Genetic Terms
   

Information About Specific Diseases

General Information

• GeneReviews
• Genetic Alliance
• Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM)
   

Rare Diseases

• Genetics and Rare Diseases Information Center (GARD)
• Disease InfoSearch: The Genetic Alliance
   

Cancer

• National Cancer Institute, Physician Data Query (PDQ)
• NCI Colorectal Cancer Risk Assessment Tool
   

Tools for Collecting Family History

• My Family Health Portrait
• NHGRI’s Family Health History Resources
   

Locating a Genetics Clinic and Genetics Health Professionals

• Genetic Testing Registry
• National Cancer Institute - Cancer Genetics Services Directory
• National Society of Genetic Counselors
   

Clinical Trials Resources

• National Institutes of Health Clinical Trials
• National Institutes of Health, Clinical Center
• Clinical Research
• Current NHGRI Clinical Studies