The teaching introduces the student to the main topics of medical genetics, starting from the different modes of transmission of hereditary diseases to the most recent technologies used for genome analysis. Furthermore, it provides the essential skills to understand issues related to prenatal and pre-implantation genetic diagnosis, including current regulatory trends.
The Course aims to introduce students to the basic and most relevant aspects of medical genetics. At the end of the course students will achieve the following outcomes important in the current clinical practice of medical genetics.
At the end of the teaching and learning activities students will be able to:
Class will be managed as frontal lectures on all topics of the program with Power Point presentations. The last part of each lesson will be dedicated to simple genetic problems solving.
Students can take advantage of online material, available on the AulaWeb page (https://www.aulaweb.unige.it). At the end of the Course, students will be allowed to access a simulation, and subsequent collective correction, of exam tests.
Any Student with documented Specific Learning Disorders (SLD), or with any special needs, shall reach out to the Lecturer(s) and to the dedicated SLD Representative in the Department before class begins, in order to liase and arrange the specific teaching methods and ensure proper achievement of the learning aims and outcomes.
Teaching contributes to the achievement of the following Sustainable Development Goals of the ONU Agenda 2030:
4. provide quality, equitable and inclusive education, and opportunities for learning for all
5. achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.
Power point notes of class lessions are available for students to be downloaded from AulaWeb page (https://sanitarie.aulaweb.unige.it/course/search.php?search=geneticamedica). Files are strictly for personal use only; files must not be shared on social media, posted on any internet website or put on any sharing platform; files must not be printed out for sale or photocopied.
Any other, more in-depth material is mentioned in the following textbooks:
Ricevimento: Prof. Emilia Bellone: contact by email: emilia.bellone@unige.it.
According to the formal communication provided by the competent office of each Faculty/School.
The timetable for this course is available here: EasyAcademy
The exam is a written text (multiple choice questions) - either to be taken on-line or in presence- during which students are requested to answer 10 questions spanning through all main items presented during the course.
The test will be timed, allowing 15 minutes for each set of 10 questions (this applies both for on-line and in presence test sessions).
The exam aims to verify the students’ required level of knowledge and understanding about topics debated during the course, concerning the most frequent hereditary diseases in Italian population, the main types of genetic tests, the main causes of chromosomal abnormalities and the problems related to prenatal/preimplantation genetic diagnosis.
Moreover, the exam will allow to evaluate the reached skills in distinguishing the inheritance of a disease through family pedigree analysis.
Registration for the exams is strictly limited to the on-line registration system. No students will be allowed to take the exam if not enrolled or if enrolled by any other means. If students experience troubles/inconveniences while enrolling, they are strongly encouraged to contact the on-line student service IN ADVANCE to the enrolment deadline.
