h2. A delegate loading their sample into a handling robot !720! h2. Current Collaborations * "*The North West Regional Genetics Service*":http://www.mangen.co.uk/ * "*The National Genetics Education and Development Centre*":http://www.geneticseducation.nhs.uk/ * "*The Centre for Integrated Genomic Medical Research*":http://www.medicine.manchester.ac.uk/cigmr/ at The University of Manchester * "*The UK DNA Banking Network*":http://www.dna-network.ac.uk/ at The University of Manchester * "*The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute*":http://www.sanger.ac.uk/ * "*Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory*":http://www.wrgl.org.uk/ Salisbury, UK. Courses are accredited by the Royal College of Pathologists and the Royal College of Physicians, or other professional body, as appropriate. h2. Midwives at training day !717! h2. Previous Courses * Newborn Screening for Midwives and Health Visitors * Genetics for Paediatricians * Breast and Bowel Cancer Risk Assessment. * Genetics for Oncology Pharmacists, * Pharmacogenetics Study Days * Economics of Genetic Technologies * Ethics and Law for the Genetics Community; * Genetics for Ethics Committee Members * Communication Skills for Geneticists * The Human Tissue Act in Practice * Teacher workshop: Exciting Experiments and Dynamic Debates Several of these courses will run again in 2008/2009; please return to this site for notification of future dates. h2. Professional Training in the Nowgen Laboratory !712! h2. MSc in Genetic Counselling The first Genetic Counselling MSc in Europe was started in Manchester and continues to be one of the most highly rated courses of its type in the EU. The two-year course is run by the Academic Unit of Medical Genetics at The University of Manchester. The majority of the teaching is delivered at The Nowgen Centre, with several Nowgen staff contributing to the course. For more information on the MSc course, click "*here.*":http://www.medicine.manchester.ac.uk/postgraduate/taught/geneticcounselling/ 38 2007-08-20T14:22:57+01:00 --- !map:HashWithIndifferentAccess publications: | To view all Nowgen publications click "here":239 *Key Publications* Donnai D, Read AP. "*How clinicians add to knowledge of development*":http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140673603140767/abstract. _Lancet_ 362: 2003; 477-484 Read AP, Donnai D. _New Clinical Genetics_ Scion Publishing Ltd; 1st edition 2007; ISBN-10: 1904842313; ISBN-13: 978-1904842316 M. J. Leech, F. Salway, F. Jury, P. Day, D. Carthy, K. Mathieson, P. Finegold, D. Donnai, H. Middleton-Price. "*_Development of molecular biology laboratory training courses for health care professionals at the North West Genetics Knowledge Park in the UK._*":download:139 ESHG Conference. France, June 2007. hide_posted_on: "true" author: "" summary: | Nowgen runs a comprehensive programme of workshops and training courses on human genetics and related subjects. These courses are run for health professionals, members of the clinical genetics community, and non-specialist audiences, such as teachers. We continually assess the need for new courses, so please contact either "Kate Mathieson":231-kate_mathieson or "Mark Leech":230-dr_mark_leech with potential ideas. Click "*here*":206 for information on current courses. funding: "" links: "" audience: "" fulltitle: "" investigators: "\"Helen Middleton-Price\":220-dr_helen_middletonprice, \"Peter Finegold\":225-peter_finegold, \"Kate Mathieson\":231-dr_kate_mathieson, \"Mark Leech\":230-dr_mark_leech, \"Emma Newall\":http://www.nowgen.org.uk/stories/717-emma_newall" false false 270 17 194 professional_training 3 6 2009-03-04T12:06:39+00:00 57 61