{"id":14691,"date":"2017-02-02T08:40:39","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T16:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nnlm.gov\/pnr\/dragonfly\/?p=14691"},"modified":"2026-02-03T17:18:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T17:18:06","slug":"new-moodle-class-regarding-genetics-and-health","status":"archive","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/new-moodle-class-regarding-genetics-and-health\/","title":{"rendered":"New Moodle Class Regarding Genetics and Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Were you unable to make it to the in-person classes of,\u00a0<em>&#8220;We&#8217;re Way Past Peas: Uses of Genetic Information to Understand Human Health and Guide Health Care Decision Making&#8221;? <\/em>Now it is available as a\u00a0Moodle class where attendees can work asynchronously during the month of March. The class consist of four topics such as learning some of the principles of genetics and how it is used in health care and consumer information which includes direct-to-consumer testing, the Precision Medicine Initiative and more.\u00a0The class also includes a webinar portion where the instructors will demonstrate resources from NCBI and the National Library of Medicine. Opportunities for class discussion, a news forum to post news stories and favorite resources as well as class exercises are all part of the package.<\/p>\n<p>This is an opportunity to learn more about how genetics is entering our health care as well as preparing our patrons whether they are health care professions, students, patients or the general public to become informed about how genetics could affect their lives. \u00a0Through this class, attendees will become familiar with the\u00a0utility and effective use of key genetic information resources \u00a0and contribute to the genetic literacy of the consumers and clinicians they support.<\/p>\n<p>Registration is now open and runs through February 28\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/nnlm.gov\/class\/waypastpeas\">https:\/\/nnlm.gov\/class\/waypastpeas<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(4 Medical Library Association CE credits)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Were you unable to make it to the in-person classes of,\u00a0&#8220;We&#8217;re Way Past Peas: Uses of Genetic Information to Understand Human Health and Guide Health Care Decision Making&#8221;? Now it is available as a\u00a0Moodle class where attendees can work asynchronously during the month of March. The class consist of four topics such as learning some&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/new-moodle-class-regarding-genetics-and-health\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14691","post","type-post","status-archive","format-standard","hentry","category-regional-news","category-training-education"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15620,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14691\/revisions\/15620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}