HU Credits: 3

Degree/Cycle: 2nd degree (Master)

Responsible Department: Bio-Medical Sciences

Semester: Yearly

Teaching Languages: Hebrew

Campus: Ein Karem

Course/Module Coordinator: Naama Zvi

Coordinator Email: naamaz@hadassah.org.il

Coordinator Office Hours:

Teaching Staff:
Dr. Shiri Shkedi-Rafi,
Ms. Naama Zvi

Course/Module description:
Accompanying genetic counsellors and
physicians in their daily work.

Course/Module aims:

Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
1. Taking a pedigree.
2. Recognizing the inheritance pattern based on the family history.
3. Become familiar with the clinical and molecular basis of a range of genetic disorders.
4. Getting to know the stages of genetic counselling meeting.
5. Expose to a variety of genetic tests available today.
6. Understand the way genetic tests are carried out in Israel (funding, referring criteria, etc).

Attendance requirements(%):

Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:

Course/Module Content:
Prenatal counselling
Pre-marital counselling
Adult-onset conditions
Pre-pregnancy counselling
Pediatric genetics
Adult genetics
Cancer genetics
Specified clinics (lung diseases, eye genetics)

Required Reading:
In accordance with the cases met in clinic

Additional Reading Material:

Grading Scheme :
Submission assignments during the semester: Exercises / Essays / Audits / Reports / Forum / Simulation / others 95 %
Attendance / Participation in Field Excursion 5 %

Additional information:
Open for Master students in genetic counselling only