Residents are encouraged to undertake a mentored research project during their training and present their work at regional and national meetings (e.g., ASHG, ACMG, and SIMD).

Meetings and Protected Educational Time:

During the course of the training program, each resident will be expected to attend NAMA (North American Metabolic Academy), which is a week-long intensive metabolic course organized by the Society for Inherited Metabolic disorders. Attendance at this course is covered by our training program. Residents also have the opportunity to attend additional national conferences with their educational funds.

In addition, our division has weekly educational sessions, including:

• Wednesday at 8:00am - UDN Screening Meeting
• Wednesday at 9:00am - Genetics Division Meeting
  • Interesting Labs
  • Journal Club
  • Resident Case Conference
• Wednesday at 10:30am - Clinical Review Meeting
• Wednesday at 12:00pm - Resident Didactic Learning
• Friday at 12:00-1:30pm – Metabolic Lecture Series

Residents also are required to participate in structured semester-long courses in genetics that provide a solid foundation of general genetics knowledge, enhance clinical training, and prepare residents for the ABMGG board exam.