Teaching Mission

One of the most important roles the Department has is providing graduate and medical education in Genetics. All faculty participate in the teaching mission of the Department contributing to graduate and medical education as needed and according to their interests. All of the faculty are members of the Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS) Graduate Program. This is a broad-based PhD program that also includes all basic science departments at HMS as well as a large number of affiliated faculty from other basic and clinical departments. In conjunction with the BBS Curriculum Committee, the Department endeavors to provide students with the strongest possible background in genetics through a core course and a wide variety of upper-level specialized courses. Within BBS, students can also concentrate their classroom and research studies within the new Program in Genetics and Genomics. Some members of the Department also participate in a number of other more narrowly focused graduate programs at Harvard, including those in biophysics, systems biology, neurosciences, immunology and virology.

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The Department also takes responsibility for teaching courses in genetics and embryology to first year medical students. One other aspect of teaching involves the Department's clinical postgraduate training of Genetics fellows in preparation for Board qualification. Clinical training in Genetics at Harvard is a joint effort involving all of the major teaching hospitals. While the hospitals assume the main responsibility for this training effort and provide patients for instruction, the Department of Genetics provides support and research opportunities for fellows.

Navigate the subsections on the left for course listings. For a full description of these and other course offerings, see the Biophysics, Molecular and Cellular Biology, or the Organismic and Evolutionary Biology sections of the FAS courses of instruction. Students may also cross register for several genetics-related courses offered through the Biology Department at MIT.

HMS MD and HST Curriculum

Navigate the subsections on the left for course listings. For a full description of these and other course offerings, see the Biophysics, Molecular and Cellular Biology, or the Organismic and Evolutionary Biology sections of the FAS courses of instruction. Students may also cross register for several genetics-related courses offered through the Biology Department at MIT.