The course provides information about personalized (or precision) medicine, its philosophy, methods and tools, and specific examples of its clinical benefits. The purpose of the course is not to give a comprehensive overview (because personalized medicine includes many areas and disciplines in both clinical practice and biomedical research), but to discuss the various view points and connections between them.
It might look like personalized medicine depends primarily on genetic profiling, (pharmaco) genomics, OMICS methods, etc., and that the methods of traditional (Western) medicine seem to be losing their relevance. In fact, the methods and tools of personalized medicine complement traditional medicine, and the (interdisciplinary) knowledge of the physician (including the interpretation of laboratory data), his experience and his mind open to new knowledge (though with a critical approach) remains the most important.