OncoSim and OncoWiki: an authentic learning approach to teaching cancer genomics.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Personalised medicine is rapidly changing the clinical environment, especially in regard to the management of cancer. However, for the large part, methods used to educate undergraduate students as future biomedical scientists and medical doctors have not reflected these changes. In order to make effective use of advances in cancer genomic knowledge, there is a need to expose students to the challenges of genomic medicine and to do so in a manner that makes this complex information accessible.

Methods

The teaching method developed, OncoSim, is a scaffolded 'Personal Research' module option for final year biomedical undergraduate students. It uses an authentic learning approach to teach cancer genomics via simulated cancer patient case studies that have identifiable

SUBMITTER: Schoenborn P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6836658 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature