The student is supposed to learn how to deal with a disease to recognize if it is genetically detemined or not, how to do counselling, how to collaborate with clinicians caring for the patiens, how to deal with reproductive problems of the family.
The program will include the following topics:
1- examples of genetic couselling derived from personal experience of the teacher;
2- a monogenic disorder to be used as a model for mendelian inheritance (from the diagnosis to therapy);
3- diseases related to chromosomal abnormalities;
4- genetics of a malformation
5- developmental delay
Lecture;
students will be asked to interact as much as possible;
at the end of each lesson the topic discussed in the next lesson will be indicated and the sudents requested to read about it in advance.
New Clinical Genetics, by Andrew Read, Dian Donnai
Practical Genetic Counselling 7th Edition: Peter S. Harper:
oxford desk reference clinical genetics
written exam with true or false questions
he possibility of shadowing genetic couselling is offered to a limited number of stuents.
there is alaso the possibility to write the graduation thesis for 1/2 students /year in Medical Genetics.
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