Addressing Ethnicity in the Design and Evaluation of an Educational Intervention on Interindividual Variation in Pharmacokinetics.

ABSTRACT: Interindividual variation in pharmacokinetics can occur due to diet, environmental or lifestyle factors, underlying pathology, and gene variants, typically single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). Genetic mechanisms have received the most attention in research and education about ethnic differences in pharmacokinetics. Making this connection between genetics and ethnicity is problematic because it could reinforce the erroneous idea that there is a biological basis to ethnicity. The aim of this work was to design an educational intervention about interindividual variation in pharmacokinetics, explore how students perceive ethnicity and genetic differences prior to the educational intervention, and then assess the impact of the intervention and whether it could influence any misconceptions st

SUBMITTER: Koenig JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11800234 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature