Clinical Rotations

Students complete three 12-week clinical rotations corresponding to the Summer, Fall and Spring semesters of the 2nd year. Students gain a wide variety of clinical experience in prenatal, pediatrics, cancer and other sub-specialty areas under the supervision of certified genetic counselors and/or geneticists. Students participate in well over 50 clinical cases satisfying the requirements for certification eligibility by the American Board of Genetic Counseling.

Genetics Centers Currently Affiliated With The Program Are:

• Baltimore Washington Medical Center Genetics Clinic  

• Children's National Medical Center
  • Genetics, Metabolism and the Center for Prenatal Evaluation 
  • Birth Defects and Genetic Disorders
  • Genetic Counseling  
   

• Franklin Square Hospital, Prenatal Diagnosis 

• Georgetown University
  • Lombardi Cancer Center 
  • Prenatal Diagnosis Clinic 
   
• Greater Baltimore Medical Center
  • Cancer Genetics
  • Neuropsychiatry
  • Pediatric Genetics
  • Prenatal Diagnostic Center
   

• Greater Washington Maternal-Fetal Medicine & Genetics 

• Harbor Hospital 

• Howard University Hospital 

• Johns Hopkins Hospital
  • Breast/Ovarian Surveillance Program  
  • Center for Medical Genetics
  • Hereditary Colon Cancer Program  
  • Fertility Center  
   

• Kennedy Krieger Institute Neurogenetics – Metabolism Clinic  

• Kernan Hospital, Cleft Palate 

• NCI, Cancer Genetics Clinics 

• Sinai Hospital
  • Cancer Genetics  
  • Sinai Hospital, Prenatal Genetics  
   

• St. Agnes Hospital 

• St. Joseph's Medical Center – Prenatal Diagnosis Clinic 

• University of Maryland
  • Cancer Genetics Clinic  
  • Center for Advanced Fetal Care  
  • Huntington Disease Clinic
  • Pediatric Genetics  
  • Adult Genetics Clinic
   

• Walter Reed Army Medical Center  

• York Hospital, Maternal Fetal Medicine 

Students participate in rotations during the first year of the program at other locations including the Maryland Department of Mental Health and Hygiene, Division of Hereditary Diseases, Kennedy-Krieger Down Syndrome and Spina Bifida Clinics, Johns Hopkins Cystic Fibrosis Clinic, and the University of Maryland Prader-Willi Syndrome and Huntington Disease Clinics.