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Education/Training
- 8 years
- 6 years of residency to earn ABMG certification
- Biological or Physical sciences bachelor degree program
- Medical Doctor or Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine program
- 2 year residency in internal medicine
- Genetics fellowship
- Multi-step US Medical Licensing Examination
Responsibilities/Duties
- Diagnose and treat patients with genetically influenced health issues
- Prescribe therapy and work with genetic councilor
- Evaluate patients that are at risk for inherited diseases
- Evaluate medical history of patients
- Analyze DNA samples
- Supervise laboratory technicians
Source:
Education-portal (n.d) Clinical Geneticist: Job description, duties and requirements
Retrieved from: Education-portal.com
Reflection:
I chose to place my Clinical Geneticist career journal in my portfolio because this job seems very interesting. Skills that i have learned from this class that would be beneficial for this career includes all of our work with DNA. This would include the work we did with tracking diseases through generations using pedigrees. By doing these activities and reading online about what this job all contains has made it seem very interesting to me.