Birute Tumiene, Harm Peters, Bela Melegh, Borut Peterlin, Algirdas Utkus, Natalja Fatkulina, György Pfliegler, Holm Graessner, Sanja Hermanns, Maurizio Scarpa, Jean-Yves Blay, Sharon Ashton, Lucy McKay, Gareth Baynam
People living with rare diseases (PLWRD) still face huge unmet needs, in part due to the fact that care systems are not sufficiently aligned with their needs and healthcare workforce (HWF) along their care pathways lacks competencies to efficiently tackle rare disease-specific challenges. Level of rare disease knowledge and awareness among the current and future HWF is insufficient. In recent years, many educational resources on rare diseases have been developed, however, awareness of these resources is still limited and rare disease education is still not sufficiently taken into account by some crucial stakeholders as academia and professional organizations...
December 19, 2022: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases