title: Training the Future Leaders in Personalized Medicine.
abstract: The era of personalized medicine has arrived, and with it a need for leaders in this discipline. This generation of trainees requires a cadre of new skill sets to lead the implementation of personalized medicine into mainstream healthcare. Traditional training programs no longer provide trainees with all the skills they will need to optimize implementation of this revolution now underway in medicine. Today's trainees must manage clinical teams, act as clinical and molecular diagnostic consultants, train other healthcare professionals, teach future generations, and be knowledgeable about clinical trials to facilitate genomic-based therapies. To prepare trainees for the transition to junior faculty positions, contemporary genomic training programs must emphasize the development of these management, teaching, and clinical skills.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA. hmason-suares@partners.org.|Laboratory for Molecular Medicine, Partners Personalized Medicine, 65 Landsdowne Street, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. hmason-suares@partners.org.
authors.forename: Heather
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Mason-Suares
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, Massachusetts General Hospital, 100 Charles River Plaza, Boston, MA 02114, USA. dsweetser@partners.org.
authors.forename: David A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Sweetser
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA. nlindeman@partners.org.
authors.forename: Neal I
authors.initials: NI
authors.lastname: Lindeman
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA. cmorton@partners.org.|Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis St, Boston, MA 02115, USA. cmorton@partners.org.|Broad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, 415 Main Street, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA. cmorton@partners.org.|Manchester Academic Health Science Center, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK. cmorton@partners.org.
authors.forename: Cynthia C
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: Morton
keywords: clinical genetics residency; clinical molecular genetics fellowship; education; genomic testing; molecular genetic pathology fellowship; personalized medicine