Does Familiarity Breed Acceptance? New Program Encourages Young Doctors to Get Personal with DTC Genomics.
The Genomics Law Report launched its new series What ELSI is New? yesterday with guest commentaries from Hank Greely and Misha Angrist. One of the issues that both Greely and Angrist tackle—from different angles and with decidedly different styles—is the widely acknowledged shortage of health care professionals qualified to understand and interpret genomic information of increasing prevalence and complexity.
By sheer coincidence, yesterday’s Boston Globe profiled a new program at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center that invites pathology residents to learn about DTC genetic testing in a novel way: by becoming customers themselves.
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