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. 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. 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.

Courses taught by members of the department include

HMS MD Curriculum

  • IN754.0 Human Genetics
  • GN701.0 Principles of Genetics
  • GN703.0 Advanced Topics in Gene Expression
  • GN705.0 Mammalian Genetics
  • GN711.0 Genetics in Medicine: From Bench to Bedside
  • GN724.0 Genotype to Phenotype: Epigenetics and Other Forms of Gene Regulation

Health Science and Technolgy Courses

  • HT160.0 Molecular Biology and Genetics in Modern Medicine

Biological and Biomedical Sciences Curriculm

 

  
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