Courses to be visited by CLGs in education from group 2b and 3 countries should contain primarily fields the candidates cannot cover in their homecountries.

For group 2b fields not covered in the national CLG education are:
- basic knowledge in statistics
- basic knowledgeon bioinformatics and biobanking issues
- knowledge about how to organize and lead
- knowledge of oncology tests including methods
- Knowledge of clinical indications and the clinical utility and cost effectiveness of various testing procedures
- Deeper knowledge and specialized training in main subjects of genetic, laboratory diagnostics, i.e. inherited cancer genetics and clinical genetics
- In depth knowledge on interpretation of genetic laboratory findings, more specifically results from cytogenetic, molecular cytogenetic, oncogenetic, molecular genetic and biochemical genetic analyses.
- knowledge about general healthcare policy, goals and priorities.
Most of these points may be covered in a basic course on human genetic diagnostics.

Candidates from group 3 countries need to have at least one basic course on human genetic diagnostics and one one a more specialized topic of the field (e.g. oriented towards modern disgnostic techniques and applications)

The basic course(s) should cover:
- Basics of human genetics and genetic counselling (including databases)
- Cytogenetics and molecular cytogenetics (including reporting and databases)
- Molecular genetics (basic techniques, Array-CGH, PCR techniques incl. MLPA, Sanger sequencing – including reporting and databases)

The more specialized topic course(s) can e.g. cover:
- any of the topics covered in basic course in more detail
- next generation sequencing
- etc.

This list just includes examples for courses and makes no claim to completeness.
Also we do not know exactly content of all courses listed here.

5-day course we are aware of

• 7th course "Basics in human genetic diagnostics – A course for Clinical Laboratory Geneticists in education" Hotel Sweet Atlantic, Figueira da Foz, Portugal - 02.-06.09.2024 - by Isabel M. Carreira, Thomas Liehr, Joana B. Melo, Susana Ferreira
• Courses offered by ECA (including e.g. Goldrain and Nimes course)

other course which may be use alone or in combination as 3 day courses:

• Courses listed on ESHG webpage here or also here
• Virtual Prenatal Genetics Short Course;  NHS - Guy's and St Thomas'; 18 October – 30 November 2024 - details see here
• Courses offered by the Wellcome Trust

   

   

There is the possibility to do

- Master / MSc in Clinical Laboratorial Genetics in Coimbra, Portugal

or

- MSc Genomic Medicine at Swansea University, UK

- MSc Genomic Medicine at University of Manchester, UK

Some tutorials / online courses are available

by the Gen-Equip Project

for Genome Browser training