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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Apr 13.
Published in final edited form as: J Contemp Med Educ. 2015 Apr 13;3(1):14–19. doi: 10.5455/jcme.20150408050414

Table 3.

Providers’ perceptions on the influence of education on PPM implementation by years since completion of formal education.

0-10 Years (n=16) 11-20 Years (n=14) 21-30 Years (n=20) ≥31 Years (n=5)
Importance of
continuing
education on
personalized
medicine for
professional
development
(mean rating on
scale of 1-Very
Important to 5-
Very
Unimportant)		 1.93/5 2.09/5 2.00/5 3.2/5
Top educational
strategies most
effective for
clinician and
clinical team

  • Professional conferences (8)

  • Online CME (6)

  • Peer reviewed literature (5)

  • Newsletters (3)

  • Online CME (7)

  • Online Tools (5)

  • Onsite CME (5)

  • Onsite Seminar (4)

  • Peer reviewed literature (4)

  • Online CME (10)

  • Onsite CME (7) Professional conferences (6)

  • Online Tools (6)

  • Peer reviewed literature (6)

  • Other (EHR integrated) (2)

  • Online CME (1)

  • Peer reviewed literature (1)
Influence of time
to educate self and
consider PM
approaches (mean
rating on scale of
1-Greatly
Facilitated to 5-
Greatly Hindered)		 3.85/5 3.64/5 3.35/5 4.75/5
Influence of
training within the
clinical
community on
inclusion of PM in
clinical care
(mean rating on
scale of 1-Greatly
Facilitated to 5-
Greatly Hindered)		 3.85/5 3.73/5 3.19/5 5.00/5
Institution has
adequately
prepared me to
implement PM in
my clinical
practice (mean
rating on scale of
1-Strongly Agree
to 5-Strongly
Disagree)		 3.50/5 4.09/5 3.76/5 3.50/5
Most important
focus areas to
direct effort for
personalized
medicine (top 5 or
less that could be
distinguished by
number of
respondents
selecting options)

  • Clinician Education (9)

  • Genomic PM research (7)

  • Demonstration of the clinical validity of PM approaches (7)

  • Patient centered outcomes research (7)

  • Patient education (5)

  • Clinician Education (8)

  • Demonstration of utility of PM approaches (4)

  • Non-genomic PM research (3)

  • Genomic PM research (3)

  • Clinician education (12)

  • Demonstration of the clinical validity of PM approaches (8)

  • Patient centered outcomes research (8)

  • Patient education (7)

  • Demonstration of utility of PM approaches (6)

  • Clinician education (2)

  • Patient centered outcomes research (2)

  • Demonstration of the clinical validity of PM approaches (2)