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MedTech: Exploring the Human Genome 

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MedTech: Exploring the Human Genome
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Overview

Duration

2 weeks

Total fee

2,205

Mode of learning

Online

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Credential

Certificate

MedTech: Exploring the Human Genome
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Highlights

  • Duration 2 weeks
  • Weekly study 5 hours
  • 100% online Learn at your own pace
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MedTech: Exploring the Human Genome
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FutureLearn 
Course details

Skills you will learn
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  • Advances in genomics have opened up exciting new possibilities for healthcare. On this course, you'll learn what genomics is, and how it can revolutionize patient care. You'll learn how genomic testing works, and consider the regulatory and ethical issues that surround it.
  • You'll explore how genomics can improve patient care by understanding how genomic data helps clinicians to identify illness risk more accurately, using the specific examples of cancer and epidemics such as Zika virus disease. You will also look at the future of genomics, and how it might impact healthcare roles.

MedTech: Exploring the Human Genome
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FutureLearn 
Curriculum

An introduction to genomics

Welcome

What is genomics?

Who are the stakeholders?

The challenges of genomic testing

Revision

Summary

Genomics technology and healthcare

About Week 2

Addressing patient needs

How are healthcare roles evolving?

MedTech innovations

Revision

Summary

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