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PubMed2025

Medical genetics and genomics residency programs: Trends in applications, match rates, and matriculation from 2015 to 2024.

PURPOSE: This report analyzes Medical Genetics and Genomics (MGG) training trends from 2015 to 2024. Understanding such trends is vital for developing targeted recruitment and workforce development initiatives. METHODS: Matriculation data from the American Board of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ABMGG) and publicly available data from the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) Main Residency and Specialty Matches were reviewed. Descriptive statistics and linear regression analysis were used to compare growth among MGG training pathways and to analyze trends. RESULTS: From 2015 to 2024, there has been a small, but not statistically significant, increase in the total number of individuals who have matched into categorical MGG, combined Pediatrics (Peds)-MGG, and combined Internal Medicine (IM)-MGG residency programs as a whole. This has been driven by an increase in the number of matches to combined Peds-MGG programs. Matriculation into training programs has exceeded the number of matches in categorical MGG as some positions have been filled outside of the NRMP Match. The average match rate for all applicants in categorical MGG (87%) has been higher than that for Peds-MGG (52%). CONCLUSION: Growth in applicants to combined programs and matriculation into residency programs after the NRMP Match has been promising; however, these increases are not enough to fulfill growing workforce demands.

Internship and Residency↗
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Effects of current and future information technologies on the health care workforce.

Information technologies have the potential to affect the types and distribution of jobs in the health care workforce. Against a background of an explosively growing body of knowledge in the health sciences, current models of clinical decision making by autonomous practitioners, relying upon their memory and personal experience, will be inadequate for effective twenty-first-century health care delivery. The growth of consumerism and the proliferation of Internet-accessible sources of health-related information will modify the traditional roles of provider and patient and will provide opportunities for new kinds of employment in health-related professions.

Computer Literacy↗
PubMed2003

Genetic counseling.

Medical professionals and the public are rapidly becoming aware of the overwhelming influence that an individual's genetic constitution has on fetal health and mortality, congenital malformations, cancer and other chronic diseases. Great strides have been made in recognizing and understanding modes of inheritance that had not previously been well described. Besides single-gene disorders, genetic conditions are known to be caused by a variety of different mechanisms: chromosome microdeletions and fragility, multifactorial inheritance, mitochondrial genes, triplet repeat expansions, imprinting, and uniparental disomy. Because of the complexity of genetic information, an extensive discussion is often necessary to sort out advertising, news information, and personal health concerns to enable individuals to make decisions for themselves about the various options available for testing and treatment. Genetic counseling has developed as a discipline in response to the need to educate patients, families and professionals about genetic mechanisms and their application in health care. In the future, we anticipate that the emphasis will be on primary care physicians as health-care managers, and genetic counselors will be required to educate individuals about their personal risks of inherited disorders and the implications for future generations. Genetic counseling is a process of medical education based upon empathy, patient autonomy and confidentiality in an atmosphere of empathy, support and understanding. This profession combines the knowledge of complex medical and genetic theory with the skills of a concerned, supportive counselor.

Genetic Counseling↗
PubMed1971

Human radiation effect: an overview.

The author reviews late somatic and genetic effects of radiation exposure. Emphasis is on the human experience, but includes animal experience where necessary. Particular attention is directed to dose-response relationships, and to studies of low dose effects, where they exist. It is concluded that evidence is inconclusive with respect to effects in the range of exposures permitted by current radiation standards.

Abnormalities, Radiation-Induced↗
PubMed2006

Education in medical genetics for non-genetic health care providers in Sweden.

We investigated the content and extent of education in medical/clinical genetics among Swedish universities, university colleges and colleges of health providing undergraduate education for medical doctors and nurses. In addition, selected medical specialist training programmes and programmes for midwives and district nurses were analysed to detect elements of education or training in medical/clinical genetics. The main results are that, although basic cell biology is taught during the first semesters in all education, there is little or no genetics taught during the clinical parts of the educational programmes. Moreover, with regard to post-graduate education, it is almost absent. There is a need to improve education and training in genetics for all health care professionals to meet the expected increase in genetic issues in clinical medicine.

Education, Medical↗