ENHANCING EDUCATION IN GENETICS AND GENOMICS THROUGH A VIRTUAL CAMPUS

In the context of Erasmus KA220-HED program, the project HealthTEK was developed, consisting in the design of a virtual campus working around flipped learning, personalized learning and gamified immersion.The "Virtual Campus HealthTEK" includes a set of courses for life and health sciences and technology addressed to biomedical engineers and medicine students beyond others.In this scenario we have included a unit related to the Genetics field.The aim of the Genetics and Genomics unit is to provide students of medicine or biomedical engineering with a self-learning tool to interpret the structure, function and variation of the human genome and to understand the procedures related to precision medicine.The unit is divided into subunits addressing the areas of fundamentals of molecular genetics, genetic variation, structural genomics and functional genomics.Diverse learning resources are included such as video tutorials in which the contents of the sub-unit are developed, quizzes or exercises for self-assessment and gamified content.The game simulates a real case of pharmacogenomics in which a genetic analysis of the patient is carried out before prescription of a drug.Results related to the satisfaction of the users with the platform are provided.