Public Health Genomics education in post-graduate schools of hygiene and preventive medicine: a cross-sectional survey

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• 作者：Carolina Ianuale (1)
  Emanuele Leoncini (1)
  Walter Mazzucco (2)
  Carolina Marzuillo (3)
  Paolo Villari (3)
  Walter Ricciardi (1)
  Stefania Boccia (1)
  
  1. Section of Hygiene ; Institute of Public Health ; Universit脿 Cattolica del SacroCuore ; Largo Francesco Vito 1 ; 00168 ; Rome ; Italy
  2. Department of Sciences for Health Promotion ; University of Palermo ; Palermo ; Italy
  3. Department of Public Health and Infectious Diseases ; Sapienza University of Rome ; Rome ; Italy
  
• 关键词：Survey ; Education ; Public health ; Genomics
• 刊名：BMC Medical Education
• 出版年：2014
• 出版时间：December 2014
• 年：2014
• 卷：14
• 期：1
• 全文大小：266 KB
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  13. The pre-publication history for this paper can be accessed here:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6920/14/213/prepub
  
• 刊物主题：Medical Education; Theory of Medicine/Bioethics;
• 出版者：BioMed Central
• ISSN：1472-6920

文摘

Background 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. Methods 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. Results 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. Conclusions 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.