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Caryn Babaian; Sudhir Kumar – American Biology Teacher, 2024
The emerging field of genomic medicine offers an opportunity for biology and anatomy teachers to bring the topics of DNA, genetics, molecular processes, and evolution together into one experience. Through the genomic medicine paradigm, students see the unbroken connection between small biological topics such as mutations and their potential…
Descriptors: Science Education, Genetics, Diseases, Genetic Disorders
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Boerwinkel, Dirk Jan; Swierstra, Tsjalling; Waarlo, Arend Jan – Science & Education, 2014
In recent decades, Science & Technology Studies (STS) have revealed the dynamic interaction between science and technology and society. Technology development is not an autonomous process and its artifacts are not socially inert. Society and technology shape each other. Technologies often have "soft impacts" in terms of unpredicted…
Descriptors: Science and Society, Genetics, Genetic Disorders, Technological Advancement
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Benbassat, Jochanan; Baumal, Reuben – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2012
Undergraduate medical education is too long; it does not meet the needs for physicians' workforce; and its content is inconsistent with the job characteristics of some of its graduates. In this paper we attempt to respond to these problems by streamlining medical education along the following three reforms. First, high school graduates would be…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Medical Schools, Physicians, Public Health