Courses - ESGM
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The European School of Genetic Medicine (ESGM) is the only initiative in Europe that offers advanced training in the fields of genetics and genomics in medicine.
More than 5,500 students have attended ESGM courses over the last 22 years, enabling the School to expand its course offerings to a total of 12-15 courses per year.
Still, each year the number of participants in ESGM courses increases, as does the variety of nations represented by its participants. These are typically represented by young people (M.D. during their specialty training, Ph.D. candidates, post-doc, genetic nurses, etc.) with an average age of 30 years.
The primary purpose of the ESGM courses is to provide advanced training in genetics and genomics to junior scientists and health professionals from across Europe.
The secondary purpose of these courses is even more important. That is, give junior scientists plenty of opportunities to establish professional contacts with colleagues from across Europe, including ESGM faculty.
Given the current "Brain drain," it is now paramount to involve young scientists in competitive, fully-funded, European research projects at a critical moment in their careers. The ESGM is also attracting students from an increasing number of countries from the Southern Mediterranean rim and the Middle East (Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Israel, Morocco, Syria, Tunisia and the Palestinian Authority, Turkey, Israel, Iran, Iraq, etc)
Training scientists and medical specialists from these countries is essential for the purpose of disseminating modern genetic knowledge in the Southern Mediterranean Region and the Middle East.
Furthermore, the increased participation of female scientists and health professionals from these countries will help to ensure that current knowledge of genetics be applied within the field of reproductive healthcare. This will increase reproductive choices, thus producing remarkable social change.
While ESGM courses are offered in a variety of venues across Europe and the Mediterranean sea basin, the primary training site is the Centro Universitario EuroMediterraneo (CUEM) located in Ronzano, on the hills surrounding Bologna, just 3.5 km from the medieval city center. CUEM is managed by the European Genetics Foundation in collaboration with the University of Bologna and provides a quiet learning environment coupled with the technology and resources of a major cosmopolitan University.
These resources have enabled the ESGM to make its courses available online to those researchers who are unable to travel to Bologna, using webcasting via internet.The use of information and communications technologies will expand in the years to come, making the ESGM an ever more important vehicle for international information exchange among scientists.
A detailed program of past courses can be found here.
Registration for any course can be carried out online at this page.
Fellowships (mostly granted by the European Society of Human Genetics) are available for approximately 20% of students in each course.
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