Ensuring best practice in genomics education and evaluation: reporting item standards for education and its evaluation in genomics (RISE2 Genomics)

Amy Nisselle; Monika Janinski; Melissa Martyn; Belinda McClaren; Nadia Kaunein; Reporting Item Standards for Education and its Evaluation in Genomics Expert Group; Kristine Barlow-Stewart; Andrea Belcher; John A Bernat; Stephanie Best; Michelle Bishop; June C Carroll; Martina Cornel; Vajira H W Dissanayake; Agnes Dodds; Kate Dunlop; Gunjan Garg; Russell Gear; Debra Graves; Ken Knight; Bruce Korf; Dhavendra Kumar; Mercy Laurino; Alan Ma; Jane Maguire; Andrew Mallett; Maria McCarthy; Alison McEwen; Nicola Mulder; Chirag Patel; Catherine Quinlan; Kate Reed; Erin Rooney Riggs; Ingrid Sinnerbrink; Anne Slavotinek; Vijayaprakash Suppiah; Bronwyn Terrill; Edward S Tobias; Emma Tonkin; Steve Trumble; Tina-Marie Wessels; Sylvia Metcalfe; Helen Jordan; Clara Gaff

doi:10.1038/s41436-021-01140-x

Ensuring best practice in genomics education and evaluation: reporting item standards for education and its evaluation in genomics (RISE2 Genomics)

Genet Med. 2021 Jul;23(7):1356-1365. doi: 10.1038/s41436-021-01140-x. Epub 2021 Apr 6.

Authors

Amy Nisselle^{1

2

3}, Monika Janinski^{1

2}, Melissa Martyn^{2

3

4}, Belinda McClaren^{1

2

3}, Nadia Kaunein^{1

2}; Reporting Item Standards for Education and its Evaluation in Genomics Expert Group; Kristine Barlow-Stewart⁵, Andrea Belcher^{1

6}, John A Bernat⁷, Stephanie Best^{1

2

8}, Michelle Bishop⁹, June C Carroll¹⁰, Martina Cornel¹¹, Vajira H W Dissanayake¹², Agnes Dodds¹³, Kate Dunlop^{1

14}, Gunjan Garg¹⁵, Russell Gear¹⁶, Debra Graves^{1

17}, Ken Knight^{2

3}, Bruce Korf¹⁸, Dhavendra Kumar¹⁹, Mercy Laurino²⁰, Alan Ma^{15

21}, Jane Maguire²², Andrew Mallett^{1

6}, Maria McCarthy^{2

3

23}, Alison McEwen²⁴, Nicola Mulder²⁵, Chirag Patel^{1

26}, Catherine Quinlan^{1

2

3

23}, Kate Reed²⁷, Erin Rooney Riggs²⁸, Ingrid Sinnerbrink^{29

30}, Anne Slavotinek³¹, Vijayaprakash Suppiah³², Bronwyn Terrill^{1

33

34}, Edward S Tobias³⁵, Emma Tonkin³⁶, Steve Trumble¹³, Tina-Marie Wessels³⁷, Sylvia Metcalfe^{1

2

3}, Helen Jordan³⁸, Clara Gaff^{39

40

41}

Collaborators

Reporting Item Standards for Education and its Evaluation in Genomics Expert Group:
Jane Maguire, Erin Rooney Riggs

Affiliations

¹ Australian Genomics Health Alliance, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
² Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
³ Department of Paediatrics, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
⁴ Melbourne Genomics Health Alliance, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
⁵ Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
⁶ Faculty of Medicine, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
⁷ Stead Family Department of Pediatrics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA.
⁸ Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
⁹ Genomics Education Programme, Health Education England, Birmingham, UK.
¹⁰ Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
¹¹ Amsterdam University Medical Centre, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Department of Clinical Genetics, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
¹² Department of Anatomy & Human Genetics Unit, University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
¹³ Melbourne Medical School, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
¹⁴ Centre for Genetics Education, NSW Health, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
¹⁵ Children's Hospital Westmead, Sydney Children's Hospitals Network, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
¹⁶ Genetic Health Services New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand.
¹⁷ Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
¹⁸ School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA.
¹⁹ William Harvey Research Institute, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK.
²⁰ Department of Pediatrics, University of the Philippines Manila, Manila, Philippines.
²¹ Discipline of Genomic Medicine, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
²² Faculty of Health, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
²³ Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
²⁴ Graduate School of Health, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
²⁵ Computational Biology Division, IDM, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
²⁶ Genetic Health Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
²⁷ The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME, USA.
²⁸ Autism & Developmental Medicine Institute, Geisinger, Danville, PA, USA.
²⁹ NSW Health, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
³⁰ Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
³¹ Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
³² Australian Centre for Precision Health, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia.
³³ Kinghorn Centre for Clinical Genomics, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
³⁴ University of New South Wales Sydney, St Vincent's Clinical School, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
³⁵ School of Medicine, Nursing & Dentistry, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.
³⁶ Genomics Policy Unit, University of South Wales, Pontypridd, UK.
³⁷ Division of Human Genetics, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
³⁸ Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
³⁹ Australian Genomics Health Alliance, Melbourne, VIC, Australia. [email protected].
⁴⁰ Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Melbourne, VIC, Australia. [email protected].
⁴¹ Department of Paediatrics, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia. [email protected].

PMID: 33824503
DOI: 10.1038/s41436-021-01140-x

Abstract

Purpose: Widespread, quality genomics education for health professionals is required to create a competent genomic workforce. A lack of standards for reporting genomics education and evaluation limits the evidence base for replication and comparison. We therefore undertook a consensus process to develop a recommended minimum set of information to support consistent reporting of design, development, delivery, and evaluation of genomics education interventions.

Methods: Draft standards were derived from literature (25 items from 21 publications). Thirty-six international experts were purposively recruited for three rounds of a modified Delphi process to reach consensus on relevance, clarity, comprehensiveness, utility, and design.

Results: The final standards include 18 items relating to development and delivery of genomics education interventions, 12 relating to evaluation, and 1 on stakeholder engagement.

Conclusion: These Reporting Item Standards for Education and its Evaluation in Genomics (RISE2 Genomics) are intended to be widely applicable across settings and health professions. Their use by those involved in reporting genomics education interventions and evaluation, as well as adoption by journals and policy makers as the expected standard, will support greater transparency, consistency, and comprehensiveness of reporting. Consequently, the genomics education evidence base will be more robust, enabling high-quality education and evaluation across diverse settings.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Consensus
Delphi Technique
Genomics*
Humans
Research Report*
Stakeholder Participation