Department of Pharmacogenomics, Bernard J Dunn School of Pharmacy, Shenandoah University, Innovation Hall Suite 202, 45085 University Drive, Ashburn, VA 20147, USA.
Pharmacogenomics. 2014 Feb;15(3):265-76. doi: 10.2217/pgs.14.5.
Pharmacogenomics (PGx) plays a critical role in personalized medicine; however, most healthcare practitioners lack the training and confidence in PGx required to fully utilize its potential. Although continuing education and inclusion of PGx into the professional curricula will begin to address this deficiency, PGx education at the secondary and postsecondary levels would demystify PGx and pique interest at an academic stage that is key to funneling PGx curious students into the science and healthcare pipeline earlier.
This article describes the development and evaluation of a genomics outreach program targeted at young women in high school with the ultimate goal of recruiting students into an undergraduate PGx program and school of pharmacy.
This program increased participants' genomics knowledge, influenced their careers interests, and imparted positive feelings towards a genomics-based and/or biomedical career.
Genomics-based educational outreach programs geared towards secondary school students can increase interest in and confidence to pursue a PGx-centric degree/career. Original submitted 3 July 2013; Revision submitted 6 January 2014.
药物基因组学（PGx）在个性化医疗中起着关键作用；然而，大多数医疗保健从业者缺乏充分利用其潜力所需的 PGx 培训和信心。尽管继续教育和将 PGx 纳入专业课程将开始解决这一不足，但在中学和高等教育阶段进行 PGx 教育将揭开 PGx 的神秘面纱，并在学术阶段激发兴趣，这对于将对 PGx 感兴趣的学生更早地纳入科学和医疗保健领域至关重要。
本文描述了一项针对高中女生的基因组学外展计划的开发和评估，其最终目标是招募学生进入本科 PGx 课程和药学院。
该计划提高了参与者的基因组学知识，影响了他们的职业兴趣，并对基于基因组学和/或生物医学的职业产生了积极的感觉。
面向中学生的基于基因组学的教育外展计划可以增加对 PGx 为中心的学位/职业的兴趣和信心。原始提交日期为 2013 年 7 月 3 日；修订提交日期为 2014 年 1 月 6 日。
