Medical Genetics residency training
A four-year specialty programme aligned with Türkiye’s national curriculum, built around longitudinal clinical and laboratory responsibility rather than short observational placements.
- Programme length
- 4 years
- Diagnostic laboratory rotation
- ≥ 18 months
- Residents in training
- 16
- Faculty medical geneticists
- 9
Medical Genetics Residency
A four-year specialty programme aligned with Türkiye’s national Medical Genetics curriculum.
Residency training integrates clinical genetics, genomic diagnostics, laboratory medicine, case-based learning and research. Residents assess patients in the outpatient clinics, take part in genetic counselling, work through the diagnostic laboratory, and carry cases from referral to interpretation and report.
Training is longitudinal rather than modular. Clinical and laboratory responsibilities run alongside one another throughout the programme, so that a resident learns to read a variant in the context of a phenotype they have themselves assessed.
- Longitudinal clinical exposure across rare disease, cancer genetics, prenatal and reproductive genetics
- Structured laboratory rotations across the department’s diagnostic platforms
- Variant interpretation and clinical reporting under supervision
- Thesis and research supervision by departmental faculty
Laboratory Training
At least 18 months of diagnostic laboratory rotation across the four-year programme.
Residents train across next-generation sequencing, molecular diagnostics, cytogenetics and cytogenomics, prenatal genetics, and molecular oncology and haematology workflows. The aim is working competence in each domain: understanding what a method can and cannot detect, and what that means for a report.
Because the department holds these methods in one service, residents see the same clinical question approached by different techniques — and learn when orthogonal confirmation is required.
- Next-generation sequencing: library preparation through to variant review
- Chromosomal microarray and FISH
- Real-time PCR and droplet digital PCR
- Sanger sequencing and confirmation strategy
- MLPA, MS-MLPA and fragment analysis
- Quality control, external quality assessment and reporting standards
Structured Teaching
Scheduled seminars, case presentations and current-literature review.
The academic programme runs on a scheduled cycle of theoretical sessions, case presentations and current-literature review. Coverage spans both flagship research programmes, with substantial attention to genomic medicine and molecular oncology alongside rare disease.
Residents present their own cases and lead literature sessions. The intent is to build the habit of appraising evidence critically, and of stating clearly what a paper does and does not establish.
- Rare disease and dysmorphology case review
- Neurogenetics and neurodevelopmental disorders
- Cytogenomics and structural variation
- Hereditary cancer predisposition and counselling
- Somatic and solid-tumour oncology
- Haematologic molecular biomarkers
- Current-literature appraisal
Clinical Rotations
External rotations as set by the national specialty curriculum.
Residency training includes clinically relevant external rotations in accordance with the national specialty curriculum. Rotation requirements are defined nationally, not by the department, and this page describes them only as they apply to training here.
- Medical Oncology — 1 month
- Haematology — 1 month
- Obstetrics & Gynaecology — 1 month
- Paediatrics — 3 months: Child Neurology, Metabolism, and Endocrinology (one month each)
Research & Thesis Training
Project development, literature appraisal, reporting and manuscript preparation with faculty mentorship.
Residents are encouraged to develop thesis and project-based research with faculty mentorship and methodological support. Much of the department’s published work has residents as first or contributing authors, and thesis projects are chosen to sit within one of the two flagship programmes.
Supervision covers the whole arc: framing an answerable question, assembling and describing a cohort, interpreting variants defensibly, and writing the work up for publication.
- Thesis supervision within a flagship research programme
- Study design and project development
- Literature appraisal and methodological support
- Variant interpretation and clinical reporting practice
- Manuscript preparation and submission