1. Professional Introduction
Its goal is to help students provide high-quality, customer-centered and culturally competitive nursing in their future work, promote knowledge progress and nursing improvement through research, create new interdisciplinary occupations, put the discoveries in the field of genomics into practice, and lead the development of genetic counseling.
This major tries to provide students with all kinds of tools needed to pursue career development and tap their personal interests. Students can take advantage of the opportunities offered by the University of Cincinnati and Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. The teaching places are Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and the nearby University of Cincinnati Medical Campus.
Students can use their own workspace, and many clinical practices are carried out on the same floor where professionals in children's hospitals work. Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center is one of the three largest pediatric medical centers in the United States. This special opportunity is realized through the special cooperation between the University of Cincinnati and Children's Medical College.
2. Curriculum system
This course system of genetic counseling for graduate students has certain academic difficulties, which balances genomics, counseling skills, research and other major aspects. This major will be a good choice for students who value such a curriculum system.
The curriculum system of genetic counseling graduate students includes classroom teaching, clinical practice and research in turn. From the beginning, students participated in outpatient study.
The first clinical practice began in the sixth week of the first semester. The first year of clinical practice lasts for five weeks, so that students can make full use of various clinical practice opportunities.
There is a seven-week clinical internship in the summer after the first year. The research/thesis is planned to start from the fall semester of the first year to the end of the study.
About fifteen credits are completed each semester. Need to take courses in human genetics, embryology, epidemiology, teratology, clinical genomics, ethics, counseling and so on.
3. Courses (taking the first year as an example)
fall semester
Courses include introduction to genetic counseling and prenatal genomics, principles of molecular and cell biology, human genetics, clinical embryology, introduction to epidemiology and new topics in clinical genomics.
spring term
Courses include introduction to cancer genomics, introduction to genetic counseling in social psychology, clinical malformation, research design, new topics of clinical genomics, statistics and experimental design (for biomedical science) and clinical practice.
Summer semester
Clinical practice, summer internship and laboratory genetic counseling (online).
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