Personalized Precision Medicine for Health Care Professionals: Development of a Competency Framework.

Area of Science:

• Healthcare Education
• Precision Medicine Implementation

Background:

• Personalized precision medicine is transforming healthcare, necessitating new skills for professionals.
• Healthcare professionals face educational challenges in adapting to this new environment.
• Defining competencies guides the acquisition of necessary knowledge, skills, and attitudes.

Purpose of the Study:

• To propose essential knowledge domains and competencies for healthcare professionals in personalized precision medicine.
• To establish a foundation for the medicine of the future through standardized professional development.

Main Methods:

• Conducted a benchmark analysis of national and international competency frameworks.
• Gathered input from a multidisciplinary expert group via interviews and workshops.
• Analyzed training programs impacting personalized precision medicine application.

Main Results:

• Defined a framework with 58 competencies across 5 domains: health determinants, biomedical informatics, applications, participatory health, and bioethics.
• Identified 6 professional profiles (healthcare, lab, digital health, community, research, management).
• Proposed progressive training levels for each competency tailored to professional profiles.

Conclusions:

• The competency framework outlines required knowledge, skills, and attitudes for personalized precision medicine practice.
• A tiered training classification is suggested for 6 identified professional profiles.