An exceptional program, created to provide medical professionals with the necessary specialization in clinical genetics, with the most comprehensive and up-to-date knowledge in the field” 

In current medical practice, genetics is a basic pillar for the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of a large number of diseases, most of which are poorly understood. Its role extends to all medical specialties. It is, therefore, essential for the specialists to know and update their knowledge in clinical genetics, since this is an area in constant growth and with developments that affect multiple medical specialties. 

This is why this TECH program has been created, bringing together the experience and expertise of a teaching team with extensive experience in leading clinical genetics practice. Thus, the most current developments in genetic diagnostic techniques, hereditary cancer, genetics of endocrine diseases, variable primary immunodeficiency and many other issues of great interest to the specialist are addressed throughout the entire syllabus. All with an eminently practical focus, providing numerous examples and real clinical cases that help to contextualize the contents. 

The program addresses in its different modules the advanced and up-to-date knowledge for the management of patients and their diseases in the clinical genetics practice. It offers a practical approach to the different techniques most commonly used for the diagnosis of hereditary diseases, as well as the interpretation of their results. Likewise, the diseases that cause the greatest number of consultations in daily practice are also discussed in depth, with an up-to-date approach adapted to the highest clinical level. 

Its online format makes it possible to combine it with the most demanding professional and personal activity, as it has eliminated the need for on-site classes and fixed schedules. All the content is available from day one, and can be downloaded from any device with an internet connection. This provides a unique flexibility and comfort to combine it with the most demanding professional and personal activity. 

A specialty of notable interest to the medical professional,  and one which can be efficiently acquired through this pedagogically superior professional master’s degree"

This professional master’s degree in Clinical Genetics offers you the advantages of a high-level scientific, teaching, and technological academic program.  These are some of its most notable features: 

• The latest technology in online teaching software
• A highly visual teaching system, supported by graphic and schematic contents that are easy to assimilate and understand
• Practical cases presented by practising experts
• State-of-the-art interactive video systems
• Teaching supported by telepractice
• Continuous updating and recycling systems
• Autonomous learning: full compatibility with other occupations
• Practical exercises for self-evaluation and learning verification
• Support groups and educational synergies: questions to the expert, debate and knowledge forums
• Communication with the teacher and individual reflection work
• Availability of content from any fixed or portable device with internet connection
• Supplementary documentation databases are permanently available, even after the academic program

Training that will show you the practical methodology for the gathering of necessary information for the construction of the genogram, exposing the symbology and graphic representation of such information"

This program has been developed by professionals from different Clinical Genetics clinics in which they contribute the experience they have gained through daily practice in the care of patients and families with a variety of hereditary disorders, both in genetic counseling and in prevention programs and prenatal and preconception counseling. The faculty involved in the professional master’s degree also carries out important research work in the field of Genetics.  

The professional master’s degree addresses in its different modules the basic and necessary knowledge for the management of patients and their diseases in a clinical genetics practice. It offers a practical approach to the different techniques most commonly used for the diagnosis of hereditary diseases, as well as the interpretation of the results of the same and, additionally, an approach to the diseases that motivate the largest number of consultations in daily practice in the field of a Clinical Genetics service. 

Each module addresses a theoretical text on the subject along with practical examples extracted from clinical cases that will help deepening the student’s understanding and broaden their knowledge.

Do not hesitate, take this training with us. You will find the best teaching along material with top quality virtual lessons"

This 100% online professional master’s degree will allow you to combine your studies with your professional work while increasing your knowledge in this field"

Currently not all hospitals have genetics units and it is foreseeable that all healthcare centers will have genetics units in the coming years. Students in this program will deepen the knowledge required to work as clinical geneticists both in the field of diagnosis and counseling in these units or to be part of multidisciplinary groups of medical services, where patients with hereditary diseases are treated. 

A comprehensive and fully up-to-date approach to the diseases that cause the greatest number of consultations in daily practice in the field of a Clinical Genetics service"

General Objectives

• Know the historical evolution of knowledge in the area of genetics
• Learn the use of genetic analysis for diagnostic purposes
• Approach to cardiogenetics
• Learn about all known hereditary cancer syndromes
• Recognize genetic diseases affecting the sensory organs and know how to manage them
• Detail the molecular basis and mechanisms for the diagnosis of endocrine diseases
• Know the genetic diseases affecting the central and peripheral nervous system
• Learn about genetic nephrourological diseases, such as Fabry disease or Alport syndrome
• Address the different major pediatric diseases
• Review hematological, metabolic and deposit, cerebral, and small vessel diseases

Specific Objectives

Module 1. Introduction to Genetics

• Update on the history and evolution of knowledge in Clinical Genetics
• Knowledge of fundamental concepts about the structure and organization of the human genome
• Delve into the different models of inheritance of hereditary diseases
• Genetic counseling in clinical practice
• Recurrence risk calculation
• Prenatal, preimplantational and preconceptional genetic counseling
• Ethical and legal aspects in Genetics/Genomics
• Resolution of practical cases

Module 2. Genetic Diagnostic Techniques

• Update on currently available techniques for cytogenetic and molecular diagnostics
• Request optimization strategies and diagnostic interpretation in genetics. Resolution of practical cases

Module 3. Cardiovascular Diseases

• Acquire knowledge about the importance of familial heart disease in the context of cardiovascular disease
• Delve into the aspects of familial heart disease: basic genetics, relevant aspects on diagnosis and prognosis of the different hereditary cardiomyopathies: hypertrophic, dilated, noncompaction, and arrhythmogenic
• Delve into relevant aspects of aortic syndromes

Module 4. Hereditary Cancer

• Provide the student with the necessary tools for the acquisition of knowledge of the criteria for the identification of families with susceptibility to the different hereditary cancer syndromes
• Identification of individuals at risk
• Plan protocols with early prevention programs, as well as the different risk-reducing surgery techniques and areas of application
• Specialize in the risk of transmission to offspring
• Develop preimplantation genetic diagnosis in cancer

Module 5. Genetics of Diseases of the Sensory Organs

• Comprehensive and up-to-date learning on retinal dystrophies and sensorineural hearing loss
• In-depth understanding of the genetic causes and inheritance models
• Develop information about diagnosis and prognosis, as well as the risk of disease transmission

Module 6. Genetics of Endocrine Diseases

• Update and learn about the characteristics of endocrine diseases, both in adults and children, associated with hereditary patterns
• Use of clinical and analytical data to establish the differential diagnosis, from the point of view of genetics, before making the decision on the study to be performed

Module 7. Genetics of Neurological Diseases

• Provide strategies for a global approach to the patient with neurological pathology of genetic origin, to guide a clinical diagnosis considering previous explorations, both analytical, immunohistochemical, and electrophysiological studies already performed and well as other complementary explorations

Module 8. Genetics of Nephrourological Diseases

• Provide global information on the most common nephrological and urological pathologies 
• Comprehensive approach for its identification and clinical diagnosis considering previous explorations, both analytical and anatomo-pathological studies already performed and other complementary explorations

Module 9. Genetics of Pediatric Diseases

• Understand in depth the concepts in dysmorphology
• Delve into a dysmorphological exploration
• In-depth understanding of congenital malformations
• Study the main pediatric syndromes
• Detect inherited disorders of metabolism

Module 10. Miscellaneous

• Provide theoretical information and practical cases of other pathologies that motivate a significant number of patients in Clinical Genetics services
• Achieve greater knowledge and skill in their identification and handling

Take this opportunity and take the step to get up-to-date on the latest developments in the management of Clinical Genetics”