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Futurelearn Genetics Courses & Certifications

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Genealogy: Researching Your Family Tree

Spread across six weeks, FutureLearn  ’S Genealogy: Researching Your Family Tree programme imparts knowledge about the beauty of exploring one’s family history. Candidates can complete this short course by dedicating only four hours per week, discovering basic genealogy techniques. These will allow them to communicate about their family history, research effectively, and to understand how intricately genealogy operates. 

The Genealogy: Researching Your Family Tree online course is developed by the University of Strathclyde, one of Glasgow’s leading international technological universities. The training curriculum covers critical topics such as DNA testing, effective searching techniques, analyzing documents, documenting research, and many more. Mastering these will enable the learners to become fluent in genealogy basics, forming a sturdy foundation about its core knowledge. 

Furthermore, the Genealogy: Researching Your Family Tree course by FutureLearn is a free programme, but also has payable upgrades. Opting for those will allow candidates to unlock lifetime course access, flexibility to complete it at their own pace, and various other benefits. As a part of the Study UK Campaign, students also avail the opportunity to secure a digital or printable certificate.

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6 Weeks
Beginner
Free
Skills Covered:
Research skills
What is Genetic Counselling

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Wellcome Genome Campus via Futurelearn
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What is Genetic Counselling

What is Genetic Counseling training is a short-term 6 weeks online course that is provided by FutureLearn in association with AGNC, and the University of Manchester. This online course will impart learning about all about genetic counseling, and what role it plays in the healthcare field in the genomic era. Once candidates complete 90% of the steps in the aforesaid course and the required assessments they will be able to earn a valid certificate.

What is the Genetic Counseling certification syllabus teaches who exactly a genetic counselor is, and what are the skills and knowledge that a genetic counselor requires for counseling patients? Apart from this, the course covers everything starting from why people get themselves genetic counseling, and how it has different contexts in different countries. Other than this certification also provides learning on the challenges and ethical issues that are faced in genetic counseling. It also enables students to find out the opportunities that genetic counseling can have in the future.

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6 Weeks
Free
Skills Covered:
Knowledge of genetics
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The Genomics Era: the Future of Genetics in Medicine

The Genomics Era: the Future of Genetics in Medicine certification is a course in Genomics of the healthcare program that is a joint effort between 3 institutions, one if FutureLearn where the course is provided, and the other 2 are St George's, University of London, and St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust who have made contributions to the content. This course will encourage candidates to study genomics even at the postgraduate level.

The number of learning hours for The Genomics Era: the Future of Genetics in Medicine training is only 2 hours that is free of cost, and will teach a basic level of genomic medicine. The course will also give information on the new technologies of human genetics in the field of Medicine and helping patients in their misery by correctly diagnosing, prescribing treatment, and preventing deadly diseases. In the end, the students can use the results of the genome for the benefit of the patient without making a compromise with their safety.

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5 Weeks
Beginner
Free
Skills Covered:
Knowledge of genetics

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