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Clinical Genetics
PD 508M.3

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Description

This course introduces students to the principles of human genetics and teratology and how these principles relate to patient care.  The teaching focuses on consultations with children and adults evaluated in the daily Genetics Clinic, the Prenatal Diagnosis Center and in-patient consultations.  Students learn how to carry out diagnostic evaluations and to provide counseling for all types of genetic disorders.  They will participate in the management of inborn errors of metabolism, mitochondrial conditions, disorders in adults and human teratogens.  Students observe in Specialty Clinics for neurofibromatosis, Huntington Disease, Williams Syndrome, Von Hippel-Lindau Disease and other genetic disorders.

School Harvard Medical School
Credits 4
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Course Component Advanced Elective
Instruction Mode In Person
Subject Pediatrics
Grading Basis HMS Clinical Grading
Course Requirements Open only to HMS MD students
Curriculum Phase Post-PCE
Visiting Clerks Open to Domestic Visiting Students
Course Type Advanced Clinical Electives