Education Call: Guide to Personalised Medicine for Healthcare Professionals

The gaps in the PM knowledge and skills among healthcare professionals (HCPs) have been identified as one key barrier to the implementation of personalised medicine (PM). This initiative will enhance the capacity of HCPs to integrate PM into their daily practice, ensuring they are equipped with the necessary knowledge, skills, and competencies. The scope of this Call includes general and specialised education on PM and its implementation in clinical practice, interdisciplinary collaboration between HCPs, as well as effective communication of HCPs with patients. The courses will be designed and implemented collaboratively between selected consortia and EP PerMed.  

The purpose of the Call is to fund high quality content that will feed into online modules/ courses, that will be collaboratively developed with the Digital Learning Team supporting EP PerMed. All modules/ courses will be hosted and disseminated through the EP PerMed website and the eLearning platform designated by EP PerMed.   

Modules/courses will cater to training needs for HCPs in PM implementation (General Practitioners, Specialists, Nurses); may include case studies demonstrating successful implementation of PM strategies in primary healthcare and selected disease areas; activities to foster interdisciplinary collaboration between HCPs for PM solutions; activities to improve communications skills of HCPs to patients. 

Up to six modules will be selected covering one or more of the following topics: 

1. Enhance PM knowledge  
2. Impact of PM in Oncology to improve patient care strategies.            
3. Impact of PM in Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) to improve patient care strategies.
4. Interdisciplinary collaboration      
5. Implementation of molecular diagnosis approaches in clinical practice        
6. Improve communication Skills of HCPs    

Selected projects will receive lump sum funding of up to 50,000 EUR per module.