Ninth Semester Medicine Medical Genetics

The MED9-GEN">MED9-GEN course builds directly on the competence and skills that the student has acquired in basic/formal genetics in MED3. The course will show how competence and skills in clinical genetics can be used to handle, diagnose, counsel and treat patients and at-risk persons in families with suspected hereditary disorders and syndromes.

Ordinary teaching in clinical genetics in MED9: One week of lectures and interactive sessions in Bergen.

On completion of MED9-GEN student should have the following learning outcomes defined in terms of knowledge, skills and general competence:

Knowledge

• The student knows with the most common inherited human disorders and syndromes as well as approach concerning care of rare diseases
• The student understands the principles, use and cost-benefit aspects of laboratory diagnostics in medical genetics
• The student is familiar with legislation and ethical aspects in medical genetics, including prenatal diagnostics

Skills

• The student is capable of drawing and interpreting pedigrees in medical genetics
• The student is capable of identifying suspected inherited disorders within a family, and calculating empirical risks
• The student is capable of producing a report for the referral of patients or families to diagnostic service and counselling in medical genetics in Norway

Autumn and spring

Only for students that have studied abroad during MED9