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Medical Education

Medical EducationThe Human Genetics Program provides education to medical students, resident and fellow physicians, genetic counseling students and attending physicians.

Medical Students

NYU medical students: lectures and small group seminars in the Molecular Biology and Genetics course during the first year; clinical genetics lecture and attendance of the genetic clinics in the Pediatric clerkship during the third or fourth year.

Visiting medical students: elective rotation in clinical genetics. Please contact the NYU, Department of Pediatrics to arrange a rotation.

Phone: 212-263-8480
Fax: 212-263-8172

Residents and Fellows

NYU residents in Pediatrics and fellows in Pediatric subspecialties: eight lectures every year including:

  • Clinical genetics: common syndromes
  • Chromosome microdeletions and microduplications
  • Metabolic diseases with dysmorphic features
  • Genetic etiology of deafness
  • Overgrowth syndromes
  • Genetic syndromes presenting with regression
  • Genetic counseling
  • Newborn screening

NYU as well as visiting residents and fellows: elective rotation in clinical genetics. Please call the NYU, Department of Pediatrics to arrange a rotation.

Phone: 212-263-8480
Fax: 212-263-8172

Genetic Counseling Students

Genetic counseling students of the Sara Lawrence College may have a cancer genetics rotation in our Human Genetics program.

Elective Rotation in Clinical Genetics

The clinical services of the Human Genetics Program offer an elective rotation in clinical genetics for students and residents and fellows. The rotation includes the following:

  • Attendance to outpatient clinics
  • Observation of inpatient consultations
  • Attendance to the weekly case conference
  • Selected readings about genetics and disorders with genetic etiology
  • Presentation of a case or a disorder in written or oral form

Schedule of genetic clinics included in the rotation

Monday
1:30 p.m.
Hospital for Joint Diseases
310 East 17th Street, 3rd Floor
Genetic Counselor: Ellen Moran

Tuesday
9:00 a.m.
Suite 3A HCC Elevators H 3rd floor

1:30 p.m.
Conference Center Elevators G 15th Floor

Wednesday
9:00 a.m.
Hospital for Joint Diseases
310 East 17th Street, 3rd Floor
Genetic Counselor: Ellen Moran

Thursday
9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
N. Bellevue Clinic