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Education

There are several universities increasing their focus on personalized medicine and certain related areas. One difficulty is that medical education in all countries does not provide adequate genetic instruction.

Some universities are developing relevant sub-specialties of medicine for personalized medicine, which depending on the emphasis can also be termed molecular medicine or even prospective medicine. These include, Duke University, Harvard, The Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. A medical school is currently being constructed in Arizona, to teach the field of personalized medicine; this is a project of Arizona State University and the not-for-profit Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen). Lastly, the first private medical practice focusing solely on Personalized Medicine, Helix Health of Connecticut, is currently teaching medical residents about the utility of pharmacogenomics and family history in personalized medicine.

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