Acquire the knowledge required for advanced genetic interventions in the field of cardiovascular diseases"

This postgraduate diploma offers a review of basic concepts in the subject It addresses inheritance models and their applicability in daily clinical practice. It shows the variability of the human genome and its significance and impact at the clinical level. It offers a practical methodology in the gathering of information necessary for the construction of the genogram, exposing the symbology and graphic representation of such information, as well as practical exercises for the handling and mastery of this tool.

The use of genetic analysis for diagnostic purposes is being integrated into routine care exponentially in recent years, so it is important to provide students with knowledge to familiarize them with the technical approaches and ethical implications of these methods. All the techniques currently used for diagnosis in clinical genetics, their advantages and limitations will be described.  

The great development of cardiogenetics in recent years has led to the redefinition of numerous heart diseases with the consequent change in therapeutic management. In modern medicine, a complete knowledge of the genetic and pathophysiological basis of these diseases is essential. This module combines the fundamental bases of molecular biology, genetics, cardiac imaging, electrophysiology and clinical cardiology for a comprehensive practical and applied view of inherited cardiovascular diseases. 

An intensive and comprehensive way of working that will allow you to acquire new professional skills in the field of genetic cardiology"

This online postgraduate diploma offers you the benefits of a high-level scientific, educational and technological course. These are some of its most notable features:

• Latest technology in online teaching software
• 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
• Self-regulating 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
• Content that is accessible from any fixed or portable device with an Internet connection
• Supplementary documentation databases are permanently available, even after the course

A training program that masterfully combines intensity and flexibility, making its objectives easily and comfortably achievable for the professional"

This program has been developed by professionals from different clinical genetics clinics in which they contribute their experience in 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 postgraduate diploma also carries out important research work in the field of Genetics.

The postgraduate diploma 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 their results. It offers an approach to the diseases that cause the highest number of consultations in daily practice in a Clinical Genetics service.

The diploma contains theoretical text about the subject matter, and practical examples taken from clinical cases that will facilitate understanding and the acquisition of in-depth knowledge.

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You will be trained by professionals with extensive experience in the sector, who have contributed all their knowledge and experience in the development of this program" 

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
• Learn about all known hereditary cancer syndromes
• 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
• Addressing 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
• Deepen in 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
• Deepen in the aspects of familial heart disease: basic genetics, relevant aspects on diagnosis and prognosis of the different hereditary cardiomyopathies
• hypertrophic, dilated, noncompaction and arrhythmogenic
• Deepen in relevant aspects of aortic syndromes

A unique specialization program that will allow you to acquire advanced training in this field"