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Summary of the Profile
Objective(s) of a study programme:
The aim of the Medical Genetics master study programme is to prepare specialists of high qualification, able to work independently as medical geneticists at the laboratories of health care institutions in Lithuania and abroad.
Learning outcomes:
The Medical Genetics study programme is a multidisciplinary training programme. At the level of the programme: during the first and the second semester of the first year studies the necessary basic knowledge in fundamental biomedical sciences is provided and the beginning of the research work is started; during the second study year of the study programme students are gradually provided with an integral approach to laboratory medical genetics subjects, developing their manual skills and proceeding with their research work with the final master’s thesis.
Activities of teaching and learning:
Lectures, Seminars, Laboratory work, Consultations and Independant work.
Methods of assessment of learning achievements:
The main form of evaluation is an examination. However, courses units may be evaluated by the pass/fail evaluation as well. Every course unit is concluded with either a written or written-oral examination or pass/fail evaluation. Student's knowledge and general performance during the exam are evaluated using grading scale from 1(very poor) to 10(excellent), or by pass or fail evaluation in the cases when pass/fail evaluation is foreseen as a final evaluation of the course unit.
Study subjects (modules), practical training:
General Laboratory Diagnostics, Biochemical genetics, Cytogenetics, Molecular genetics, genomics and epigenomics, Statistics in Genetics, Biotechnology Methods and Bioinformatic Analysis, Genetic Counselling and Bioethics, Professional Practice, Master Thesis
Distinctive features of a study programme:
The specialty profession comprises all elements of genetic laboratory services needed to support patient or family handling by clinical/medical genetic specialist, genetic counsellors, and a wide range of other medical disciplines such as paediatrics, obstetrics and clinical oncology. Medical Genetics is a laboratory specialty on an academic level that joins cyto, onco, molecular and metabolic/biochemical genetics and genomics into one skilled profession. The specialist has deep knowledge of laboratory services and interpretation of results related to genetic disorders, both inherited and sporadic.
Access to professional activity:
Graduates of the Medical Genetics programme of VU MF might get employed in the laboratories of public institutions, hospitals, clinics and private clinics in Lithuania and abroad.
Access to further study:
Medical geneticists (master graduates) have the possibility to continue studies in doctoral studies of biomedical sciences at VU or other institutions of university higher education.
