Incorporate the most relevant advances in Precision Oncology into your professional practice, through a practical learning experience of only 120 hours"

Over the last few years, scientific and technological innovations in the field of Precision Oncology have followed one another at an accelerated pace. Thus, in just a few decades, tools such as liquid biopsies have appeared, and new therapeutic targets have been discovered that can be used to prevent specific tumor pathologies or treat them effectively. At the same time, the sequencing of human DNA and the in-depth analysis of each of its component genes have generated large volumes of information. To manage this data, it is imperative to have bioinformatics programs and platforms whose analysis and interpretation of various clinical results allow the physician to make much more accurate clinical decisions.

However, not all specialists are prepared to use these advances. For this reason, TECH has designed this Internship program of excellence. The educational program offers oncologists the opportunity to take an intensive, immersive, face-to-face stay at a prestigious hospital center. The learning experience will last 3 weeks to be completed in 8-hour days, from Monday to Friday. During this period, the medical professional will have the opportunity to directly manipulate the most advanced informatics tools and to recognize the molecular investigations necessary to obtain specific data.

At the same time, the graduate will develop this academic modality under the guidance of an assistant tutor. This teaching figure, in addition to supervising their progress, will insert tasks of varying complexity to help them expand their skills. In addition, they will have the opportunity to work together with experts of a distinguished professional trajectory. From this perspective, you will achieve greater excellence in your healthcare activity, incorporating the most innovative protocols and procedures of the moment.

Enjoy an intensive 3 weeks stay in a prestigious center and update yourself on the latest clinical procedures to grow professionally”

The Internship program in Precision Oncology: Genomics and Big Data of TECH is made up of a practical stay in a prestigious center, to be developed for 3 weeks, from Monday to Friday with days of 8 consecutive hours. This academic preparation, of a face-to-face and intensive nature, will take place next to an assistant specialist who will supervise all the doctor's progress.

In addition, they will have the opportunity to see real patients, together with a team of experts with extensive experience and international reference within this academic field. Thus, by applying the most innovative diagnostic procedures and planning the latest generation therapeutics in each pathology, you will achieve the highest possible update within your professional field.

In addition, they will have the opportunity to see real patients, together with a team of experts with extensive experience and international reference within this academic field. Thus, by applying the most innovative diagnostic procedures and planning the latest generation therapeutics in each pathology, you will achieve the highest possible update within your professional field.

In this completely practical Internship Program, the activities are aimed at developing and perfecting the skills necessary to provide healthcare care in areas and conditions that require highly qualified professionals, and are oriented towards specific expertise for practicing the activity, in a safe environment for the patient and with highly professional performance.

The practical teaching will be carried out with the active participation of the student performing the activities and procedures of each area of competence (learning to learn and learning to do), with the accompaniment and guidance of teachers and other fellow trainees that facilitate teamwork and multidisciplinary integration as a key element of the course.

The procedures described below will form the basis of the practical part of the training, and their implementation is subject to both the suitability of the patients and the availability of the center and its workload, with the proposed activities being as follows:

Changes in Current Clinical Practice and New Applications With Genomic Oncology 

• Detect tumor-specific mutations through a peripheral blood sample or liquid biopsy
• Reveal mutations in genes, or their possible expression, through genetic or genomic tests to anticipate the onset of cancer
• Interpreting genomic biomarkers that have a significant impact on the cancer immunotherapy landscape
• Apply the most recognized therapeutic targets against Lung Cancer derived from the identification of mutations and translocation of specific genes
• Addressing the latency of the HER2 molecule and its relationship to advanced gastric cancer

New applications of Bioinformatics in Genomic Oncology 

• Handling the Unix system and its command lines for file organization and basic medical history information in the patient under suspicion of oncologic disease 
• Incorporate R programming language applications to facilitate the analysis and comparison of diagnostic tests of an oncologic patient and those  performed for follow-up
• Perform protein and proteome studies using state-of-the-art bioinformatic tools
• Implement various algorithms performed with the R language for knowledge extraction from the  Pubmed, DGIdb and Clinical Trials databases from the search of genetic information in specific tumors

Machine learning for Big Data analysis 

• Rapidly and automatically analyze huge volumes of complex structured, semi-structured and unstructured medical data in Big Data
• Use Big Data's own techniques for data classification, including the Big Data tree  decision tree, k-NN, Support Vector Machines, neural networks, among others
• Apply the principles of data mining to the dissection of large complex medical datasets

Other genomic data mining techniques and their applications 

• Extracting pharmacological data from the OncoKB database
• Evaluating genomic data from the My Cancer Genome platform
• Manipulating next-generation sequencing technologies on the market to examine patients DNA and RNA
• Employ Artificial Intelligence programs to select specific data from open and broad information with multiple results

Receive specialized education in an institution that can offer you all these possibilities, with an innovative academic program and a human team that will help you develop your full potential”