Precision medicine is transforming health care, but implementing it successfully requires educating both individuals and entire care teams. From physicians and advanced practice providers to nurses, genetic counselors, pharmacists, and more, every member of the multidisciplinary team plays a role in maximizing the advancements of genomic medicine for the benefit of patients. To create opportunities for the entire care team to learn together, The France Foundation (TFF) collaborated with The Jackson Laboratory (JAX), combining JAX Clinical Education’s internationally recognized expertise in genomics education with our team’s experience designing accredited, interprofessional continuing education.

“As precision medicine becomes a larger part of everyday patient care, it is essential that the entire health care team learns together,” says Heather Tarbox, Director of Education and Compliance at TFF. “Shared education helps align clinical decision making, strengthens collaboration, and ultimately leads to better patient outcomes.”

Advances in precision medicine continue to reshape diagnosis and treatment across specialties, but keeping pace with evolving science can be challenging. Health care professionals must understand when genomic testing is appropriate, interpret increasingly sophisticated results, collaborate across disciplines, and communicate complex information with patients and caregivers. Those responsibilities rarely belong to a single clinician, depending instead on coordinated care delivered by multidisciplinary teams working from the same evidence base.

"The France Foundation shares our commitment to empowering clinicians through education, and we're thrilled to work together to broaden access to precision medicine learning opportunities," says Emily Edelman, Director of JAX Clinical Education. "By combining our expertise, we can better support health care teams across disciplines and help ensure patients benefit from the latest advances in science and medicine."

Making education broadly available is especially important as precision medicine expands into more areas of health care. Clinicians practicing in community settings, academic medical centers, and rural environments all need access to high-quality, evidence-based learning that prepares them to incorporate genomic medicine into patient care.

As Edelman explains further: "Every clinician should have access to the knowledge and tools needed to deliver precision medicine, regardless of where they practice. By broadening access to education, we can help ensure that patients benefit from advances in science no matter where they live."

Collaboration That Advances Care

The partnership with JAX illustrates the value of bringing together organizations with complementary expertise to address evolving educational needs. Scientific innovation alone cannot improve patient outcomes without clinicians who understand how to apply it. Likewise, education for those clinicians has the greatest impact when it is grounded in the latest evidence and designed for the realities of multidisciplinary clinical practice.

By combining JAX's leadership in precision medicine and genomics education with The France Foundation's expertise in educational strategy, instructional design, accreditation, and outcomes measurement, the collaboration created learning experiences that help health care teams build shared understanding, strengthen collaboration, and ultimately improve patient care.

As precision medicine continues to evolve, partnerships like this will remain essential not only for translating scientific advances into clinical practice, but for ensuring that every member of the health care team is prepared to deliver the best possible care to every patient.

At The France Foundation, we're proud to collaborate with organizations that share our commitment to advancing clinician education and improving patient outcomes. Get in touch with our team using the form below if you’d like to learn more about collaboration opportunities: