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Personalised Healthcare

Advance your understanding of the future of healthcare by exploring the personalised healthcare landscape and applications, its impact on social inequalities, and the role of data and privacy.

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Personalised Healthcare

Advance your understanding of the future of healthcare by exploring the personalised healthcare landscape and applications, its impact on social inequalities, and the role of data and privacy.

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CPD

Duration

5 weeks

Mode of delivery

Online - Part-time

Credits

16 CPD Credits

Next start date

TBC 2025

About

Explore the challenges and opportunities of personalised healthcare with the CPD Short Course in Personalised Healthcare from RCSI Graduate School of Healthcare Management.

Develop an understanding of this field, and also consider how personalised health could potentially deepen social inequalities if access is not equal. You will consider the future and how this landscape may evolve, and critically discuss how personalised health raises data privacy concerns.

Learning is delivered through pre-recorded videos and engaging online activities. At the end of each week there will be a 90-minute live webinar. All webinars are recorded and will be available to view at your convenience.

This five-week course is fully online and consists of four weeks of content and teaching. The fifth week is reserved for assessment.

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Enhance your understanding of the personalised health landscape

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Explore the potential to optimise clinical workflows

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Consider the future and evolutionary direction of personalised health

Suitable for

This course is suitable for any healthcare professionals, whether working as clinicians or in a managerial stream, who wish to learn about how personalised health is influencing medicine, what developments are likely in the coming years, and how they can implement them in their workplace and professional practice. It may also be of interest to IT professionals working in healthcare, who need to better understand the nature of personalised health data.


What you will learn

Week 1

The personalised health landscape

Week 2

Impacts and benefits of personalised medicine

Week 3

The nature, volume and analysis of genomic data and its relation to data from digital health tech

Week 4

The future of personalised health

Week 5

You will engage in a reflective exercise

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Register your interest

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Course information

Participants on this five-week course will:

  • Understand the relevance of personalised health in the healthcare ecosystems.
  • Learn about the impact of personalised health on healthcare quality, safety and efficacy.
  • Reflect on the potential of personalised health interventions to optimise clinical workflows.
  • Learn about the evolutionary direction of personalised health within a value-based health system.
  • Week 1: In the introductory week, you will learn about the personalised health landscape, particularly as it relates to the omic sciences and other types of data. You will discuss how personalised health can have a positive impact on public health medicine: for instance, understanding how different individuals and cohorts respond to COVID-19 can allow health professionals to apply different, more targeted measures at different population groups.
  • Week 2: You will consider the impacts and benefits of personalised health, how these may be realised in existing systems, and why it is important. You will also explore how personalised medicine changes the paradigm in relation to prevention: if we can use genomics to predict disease, can we also avoid these diseases – and could this change how we invest in and fund healthcare? Personalised medicine may also change the nature of the existing relationships between clinician and patient, raising a host of considerations and ethical dilemmas that you will explore: Are patients likely to agree to an intervention to prevent a disease that they don’t have? In an era of social media, where distrust of clinicians is growing, will patients be willing to consider gene editing?
  • Week 3: The human genome, translated to computer data, is approximately three gigabytes in size. When this is widened out to a local, national or global population, the amount of data involved in personalised health is enormous. In this week, you will discuss the nature, volume and analysis of data captured through this field of science, and how it relates to data captured through digital health technologies such as implants, sensors, wearables and mobile devices.
  • Week 4: What is the future of personalised health? You will look at several examples, with a particular focus on how digital twins – a virtual replica of a person or, sometimes, of a cohort of people– is allowing for modelling that can better predict surgical outcomes. In this week, you will consider the future of pharmaceuticals and personalised primary healthcare, with a focus on how we can ensure that these developments are in line with the UN Sustainable Development Goals by ensuring that everyone benefits from this technology and that it is not exclusively used to benefit the wealthiest and most privileged. If personalised healthcare provides a larger amount of information about patients, what does this mean for proactive approaches to healthcare management, and will it involve systemic reorganisation?
  • Week 5: In the final week, you will reflect on your learning and develop a personal action plan, focusing on actionable and applicable changes tailored to your specific workplace and context.

We understand that online learning might be a new experience for some. Our virtual learning environment (VLE) is intuitive, accessible, and easy to navigate. A dedicated programme coordinator will be available to assist with any technical difficulties or questions about learning online.

At the start of the course, we provide short orientation videos to familiarise you with the platform and course format.

Upon successful completion of this course, participants will receive a RCSI Completion Certificate. Achieving this certificate and earning continuous professional development (CPD) points involves passing weekly MCQs, engaging in online discussions, and participating in reflective exercises, including the completion of a personal action plan.

Although this course does not carry credits as per the European Credit Transfer System, it upholds rigorous quality assurance standards to provide an excellent educational experience. The course has been approved by the RCSI Professional Development and Practice Committee and is accredited for CPD points in line with the Irish Medical Council guidelines. Participants seeking recognition in other jurisdictions should verify the applicability of these CPD points as per their local requirements.


Admissions

There are no entry requirements, and no formal application review is needed. Once your application is submitted and your fee has been paid successfully, your seat will be confirmed on your course.


The course fee is €975.

Note: RCSI accepts no obligation to refund any fee, or part thereof, in respect of a participant who chooses to withdraw from or does not complete a course.