| UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA | |
| Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario/The Ottawa Hospital | |
| Degree granted: | FRCPC in Medical Genetics, FCCMG in Clinical Genetics, Molecular Genetics, Cytogenetics |
| Training available: | M.D. Postdoctoral, Ph.D. Postdoctoral |
| Current enrollment: | 5 M.D. Postdoctoral, 1 Ph.D. Postdoctoral |
| Number of graduates in last 2 years: | 1 M.D. Postdoctoral |
| Faculty status: | 11 M.S., 3 Ph.D., 5 M.D., 1 M.D./Ph.D., 1 Dietician |
| Areas of concentration: | biochemical genetics, clinical genetics, cytogenetic technology, cytogenetics, developmental genetics, dysmorphology, gene mapping, genetic counseling, molecular genetics, oncological genetics, prenatal diagnosis, teratology |
| Clinical training fellowships: | clinical genetics, clinical molecular genetics, clinical cytogenetics, clinical biochemical genetics |
| ABMG accreditation: | |
| CCMG accreditation: |
clinical genetics cytogenetics molecular genetics |
| RCPSC accreditation: | Medical genetics |
| Financial support: | Ontario Ministry of Health Funding for RCPC Residency in Medical Genetics and Ministry of Health Fellowships for trainees in CCMG programs. |
| Application deadline: | RCPSC: See CaRMS Web site for details
CCMG: Sept 1 for MOH fellowship funding deadline |
| Contact: |
Gail Graham, MD, FRCP(C), FCCMG, RCPSC Training Program Director, CHEO, Genetics, 401 Smyth Road, Ottawa, Ontario, K1H 8L1, Canada, Tel: 613-738-7600 x 2620, Fax: 613-738-4822, E-mail: ggraham@cheo.on.ca Nancy Carson, CCMG Training Program Director, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, 401 Smyth Road, Ottawa, ON, K1H 8L1, Canada, Tel: 613-738-7600 x 3282, Fax: 613-738-4822, E-mail: carson@cheo.on.ca |
| The clinical training program is based in the Eastern Ontario Regional Genetics Program, situated in an expansive new wing of a major children's hospital serving a population of 1.2M. It offers exposure to a wide range of patient presentations and research efforts incorporating dysmorphology, metabolics, cytogenetics, molecular genetics, biochemical genetics, prenatal diagnosis, cancer genetics and neurogenetics. The clinical training programs are enhanced by the presence of very active basic science research programs at adjacent university- and hospital-affiliated research institutes, including the newly constructed Apoptosis Research Institute. | |