NHS Starts Pilot Program to Increase Doctors’ Genetics Knowledge

July 31, 2009

The UK’s National Health Service wants to prepare its physicians for the changes that personalized and genomic medicine will bring to the healthcare field and has invested £4.5 million ($7.4 million) in a new pilot program to begin that process. The goal of the new program is to provide enhanced training in genetic technologies and clinical applications for healthcare scientists working in laboratory genetics. (GenomeWeb)