Ianuale Carolina, Leoncini Emanuele, Mazzucco Walter, Marzuillo Carolina, Villari Paolo, Ricciardi Walter, Boccia Stefania
Section of Hygiene, Institute of Public Health, Università Cattolica del SacroCuore, Largo Francesco Vito 1, 00168 Rome, Italy.
BMC Med Educ. 2014 Oct 10;14:213. doi: 10.1186/1472-6920-14-213.
The relevance of Public Health Genomics (PHG) education among public health specialists has been recently acknowledged by the Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region. The aim of this cross-sectional survey was to assess the prevalence of post-graduate public health schools for medical doctors which offer PHG training in Italy.
The directors of the 33 Italian public health schools were interviewed for the presence of a PHG course in place. We stratified by geographical area (North, Centre and South) of the schools. We performed comparisons of categorical data using the chi-squared test.
The response rate was 73% (24/33 schools). Among respondents, 15 schools (63%) reported to have at least one dedicated course in place, while nine (38%) did not, with a significant geographic difference.
Results showed a good implementation of courses in PHG discipline in Italian post-graduate public health schools. However further harmonization of the training programs of schools in public health at EU level is needed.
欧洲地区公共卫生学院协会最近承认了公共卫生基因组学（PHG）教育在公共卫生专家中的相关性。这项横断面调查的目的是评估意大利为医生提供PHG培训的研究生公共卫生学院的患病率。
对33所意大利公共卫生学院的院长进行访谈，了解是否有PHG课程。我们按学校的地理区域（北部、中部和南部）进行分层。我们使用卡方检验对分类数据进行比较。
回复率为73%（24/33所学校）。在受访者中，15所学校（63%）报告至少有一门专门课程，而9所学校（38%）没有，存在显著的地理差异。
结果表明意大利研究生公共卫生学院在PHG学科方面课程实施良好。然而，需要在欧盟层面进一步协调公共卫生学校的培训计划。
