Clinical Training:  Learning A new

Drs. John D. Mellinger and Timothy Synold

Cite the current challenges of medical education; Apply the principles of adult learning and motor learning theory in medical education; Discuss the arguments for the use of and potential benefits of simulators and virtual-reality training to medical education; Describe current research in the mapping of inheritable polymorphisms within the human genome, and how genetic variations influence drug metabolism and sensitivity; and Explain the roles of pharmacogenomics and the inclusion of ethnicities in clinical trials, and their value as components of drug development.