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Rotation Opportunities

SAMPLE SCHEDULE
Clinical Genetic Residency

Month

Year 1

Year 2

Year 3




JULY	Metabolic Rotation I	Metabolic Mentor Rotation Bar Harbor Short Course	Fellowship Research Year
AUGUST	Prenatal Genetics	Elective
SEPTEMBER	Dysmorphology Rotation I	Dysmorphology Rotation
OCTOBER	Prenatal Cytogenetic Lab Biochemical Genetics Lab	Elective
NOVEMBER	Elective Vacation	Vacation Elective
DECEMBER	Metabolic Rotation II	Research
JANUARY	Dysmorphology Rotation II
FEBRUARY	Molecular Lab Dysmorphology Rotation III
MARCH	Elective
APRIL	Cancer Genetics
MAY	Vacation Cancer Lab
JUNE	Combined Metabolic and Dysmorphology Rotation	Vacation

Residency Year 1


Metabolic Rotation & Half-Day of *Genetics Outpatient Clinic	8-12 Weeks
Dysmorphology Rotation & Out patient clinics	8-12 Weeks
Combined Metabolic & Dymorphology Rotation & Half-Day of *Genetics Outpatient Clinic	4 Weeks
Prenatal Genetics	6 Weeks
Cancer Genetics	6 Weeks
Molecular Laboratory	2 Weeks
Prenatal Cytogenetics LaboratoryPostnatal Cytogenetics Laboratory	2 Weeks
Biochemical Genetics	2 Week
**Elective	8 Weeks
Vacation	4 Weeks

Residency Year 2


Metabolic Mentor Rotation	2-4 Weeks
Dymorphology Rotation & Genetics Outpatient Clinic	4-6 Weeks
Elective	10-12 Weeks
Research and half day of outpatient clinic	28 Weeks***
Vacation	4 Weeks

Clinical Fellowship Year 3


Mentored clinical or basic research		48 weeks
Vacation		4 weeks

*The weekly outpatient genetic clinics include exposure to patients with: connective tissue disorders, metabolic disease, hypotonia, skeletal dysplasias, chromosome anomalies, neurological disorders, and other monogenic and multifactorial conditions as well as dysmorphology evaluations of unknown conditions.

**Additional elective outpatient clinics include: clefting and craniofacial, spina bifida, Down syndrome, cystic fibrosis, sickle cell, osteogenesis imperfecta, spinal muscular atrophy, neurofibromatosis, and hearing loss.

***Not less than 28 weeks

Didactics in Year 1 and Year 2


Clinic Conference		1hr/week
IGM Journal Club		1 hr/week
Greenberg Center Conference		1 hr/month
Chart Review		1 hr/week
Prenatal Conference		2 hours/week while on Prenatal Rotations
Ultrasound Conference		1 hour/week while on Prenatal Rotations
Cancer Conferences		2 hours/week while on Cancer Rotations