Teaching next-generation sequencing to medical students with a portable sequencing device.
Jorge L CervantesCynthia PerryMin Chih WangPublished in: Perspectives on medical education (2021)
The hands-on experience not only helped students become closer to and more comfortable with NGS, but also served as a venue to discuss the science and application of this technology in medicine. Such discussion helped to provide participants with current "genetic literacy" that is often incompletely covered in the typical undergraduate medical education curriculum.