| Course Content and Outlines |
Course Language
The course will be conducted in English
Course Venue
Conférence Center of Clinique du Levant ; President Fouad Chehab Ave., Sin el-Fil,
Beirut – Lebanon.
Course content
The Program is designed to meet the needs of participants from varied
backgrounds. In addition, the program will contain information about the
magnitude of the genetic disorder problem and its reasons in the Arab world, the
currently available genetic services in the Arab countries, cost-effective
prevention programs as well as genetic counseling from an Islamic perspective
The program content is designed to enable participants to achieve the program
learning outcomes, which in turn are linked to practice based competenties as
defined by Cardiff University and relevant registration bodies e.g. the UK Genetic
Counselors Registration Board.
The course has three components:
• Genetics Lectures
• Counseling
• Clinical scenarios and case discussions
Course Structure for Each Day:
Sessions One and Two: Genetics Lectures 08.30-10.30; 11.00-12.30
Session Three: Counselling 13.30-15.30
Session Three: Clinical scenarios and case discussions 16.00-17.30
Genetics Lectures
Day One: Mendel and Beyond
Chromosomes, mitosis and meiosis;
Patterns of inheritance and Simple Mendelian Risk Calculation
Taking a family history
Day Two: DNA, RNA, Protein
Structure of the Gene;
Chromosomal disorders: aneuploidy, translocation
Common chromosomal aneuploidies
Day Three Types of Mutation
FISH technology and chromosomal deletion syndromes;
Newborn Screening Programmes (AC)
Imprinting and Non-Mendelian inheritance
Day Four Mutation Detection
Prenatal Genetic Diagnosis and Screening;
Cancer Genetics
Day Five Conditional Probability
Genetics in Primary Health Care
Haemoglobinopathies & population screening for recessive disorders;
Day Six Human Genome Project
Genetic screening for susceptibility to disease
Cardiac Genetics
Counselling
Day One: Group introductions
Agreement about group rules
Listening, observing, feedback in triads
Day Two: Basic counselling skills
Defining the agenda
Client-led counselling
Day Three: Giving information, giving advice
Professional authority
Directiveness, nondirectiveness
Day Four: Self-awareness: becoming aware of one’s own emotions
as a professional
Day Five: Who is the patient ?
Families as systems
Family pressures
Confidentiality and Control
Day Six: Challenging the patient or client.
The value of supervision.
Putting it all together
Clinical Scenarios and Case Discussions
Day One: Embryology, Teratology and Hazards in Pregnancy
Scenarios for Discussion: (management of pregnancy)
Maternal disease (diabetes, epilepsy, PKU)
Anomalies on fetal ultrasound scan
Day Two: Malformation and Dysmorphology
Scenarios for Discussion: (the family dimension)
New diagnosis of 22q11
New diagnosis of Duchenne muscular dystrophy
Day Three: Huntington’s Disease Prediction
Scenarios for Discussion: (privacy and confidentiality)
Privacy within the family (including fragile X syndrome)
Third party issues (employment, insurance, the state)
Day Four: Consanguinity and Risks of Genetic Disorders
Disability and disease across cultures
Scenarios for Discussion:
Arranged marriages and genetic testing
Day Five: Pregestational (Preimplantation) Genetic Diagnosis – PGD
Scenarios for Discussion:
Limits to consumerism in the reproductive technologies ?
Fetal sex selection
Day Six: Cardiac Genetics, Sudden Death and Genetic Testing
Scenarios for Discussion:
Genetic Testing of Children
The course will be conducted in English
Course Venue
Conférence Center of Clinique du Levant ; President Fouad Chehab Ave., Sin el-Fil,
Beirut – Lebanon.
Course content
The Program is designed to meet the needs of participants from varied
backgrounds. In addition, the program will contain information about the
magnitude of the genetic disorder problem and its reasons in the Arab world, the
currently available genetic services in the Arab countries, cost-effective
prevention programs as well as genetic counseling from an Islamic perspective
The program content is designed to enable participants to achieve the program
learning outcomes, which in turn are linked to practice based competenties as
defined by Cardiff University and relevant registration bodies e.g. the UK Genetic
Counselors Registration Board.
The course has three components:
• Genetics Lectures
• Counseling
• Clinical scenarios and case discussions
Course Structure for Each Day:
Sessions One and Two: Genetics Lectures 08.30-10.30; 11.00-12.30
Session Three: Counselling 13.30-15.30
Session Three: Clinical scenarios and case discussions 16.00-17.30
Genetics Lectures
Day One: Mendel and Beyond
Chromosomes, mitosis and meiosis;
Patterns of inheritance and Simple Mendelian Risk Calculation
Taking a family history
Day Two: DNA, RNA, Protein
Structure of the Gene;
Chromosomal disorders: aneuploidy, translocation
Common chromosomal aneuploidies
Day Three Types of Mutation
FISH technology and chromosomal deletion syndromes;
Newborn Screening Programmes (AC)
Imprinting and Non-Mendelian inheritance
Day Four Mutation Detection
Prenatal Genetic Diagnosis and Screening;
Cancer Genetics
Day Five Conditional Probability
Genetics in Primary Health Care
Haemoglobinopathies & population screening for recessive disorders;
Day Six Human Genome Project
Genetic screening for susceptibility to disease
Cardiac Genetics
Counselling
Day One: Group introductions
Agreement about group rules
Listening, observing, feedback in triads
Day Two: Basic counselling skills
Defining the agenda
Client-led counselling
Day Three: Giving information, giving advice
Professional authority
Directiveness, nondirectiveness
Day Four: Self-awareness: becoming aware of one’s own emotions
as a professional
Day Five: Who is the patient ?
Families as systems
Family pressures
Confidentiality and Control
Day Six: Challenging the patient or client.
The value of supervision.
Putting it all together
Clinical Scenarios and Case Discussions
Day One: Embryology, Teratology and Hazards in Pregnancy
Scenarios for Discussion: (management of pregnancy)
Maternal disease (diabetes, epilepsy, PKU)
Anomalies on fetal ultrasound scan
Day Two: Malformation and Dysmorphology
Scenarios for Discussion: (the family dimension)
New diagnosis of 22q11
New diagnosis of Duchenne muscular dystrophy
Day Three: Huntington’s Disease Prediction
Scenarios for Discussion: (privacy and confidentiality)
Privacy within the family (including fragile X syndrome)
Third party issues (employment, insurance, the state)
Day Four: Consanguinity and Risks of Genetic Disorders
Disability and disease across cultures
Scenarios for Discussion:
Arranged marriages and genetic testing
Day Five: Pregestational (Preimplantation) Genetic Diagnosis – PGD
Scenarios for Discussion:
Limits to consumerism in the reproductive technologies ?
Fetal sex selection
Day Six: Cardiac Genetics, Sudden Death and Genetic Testing
Scenarios for Discussion:
Genetic Testing of Children
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