Education

First year, Autumn (full-time status, total required units: 18**):

**If you register for >18 units, extra tuition fees will apply

First year, Winter (full-time status, total required units: 18**):

-1 remaining unit: Sign up for any additional electives. If you have remaining credits, please enroll in GENE 299 (Directed Readings). There are multiple sections; you should sign up under Naik, S/NC, in order to reach a total of 18 units

If you sign up for additional electives, please reduce the number of units of GENE 276 accordingly in order to reach a total of 18 units.

**If you register for >18 units, extra tuition fees will apply

First year, Spring (full-time status, total required units: 18**):

-2 remaining units: Sign up for any additional electives. If you have remaining credits, please enroll in GENE 299 (Directed Readings). There are multiple sections; you should sign up under Naik, S/NC, in order to reach a total of 18 units

**If you register for >18 units, extra tuition fees will apply

First year, Summer

Students will not sign up for any academic credits during this time. Students will complete clinical rotations on a full time (~40 hour/week) basis and work on their research projects.

Second year, Autumn (full-time status, total required units: 10**):

*This clinical course will be taken in the quarter in which you complete your variant interpretation rotation. If you have a variant interpretation rotation Y1, summer or Y2 fall, grades posted during fall Y2. If you have a variant interpretation rotation winter or spring of Y2, grades will be posted during the quarter in which you complete the rotation.

If you would like to take an elective for 1 or 2 units, reduce GENE 276 to 2 or 1 unit. If you take an elective for 3 units, reduce 276 to 1 unit and 283 to 2 units to reach 10 total.

**If you register for >10 units, extra tuition fees will apply

Second year, Winter & Spring (full-time status, total required units: 10**):

*Remaining 1 unit: Sign up for any additional elective or increase GENE 276 to 4 units.  If you take one or more electives for 2-3 units, reduce 276 to 1 unit first, followed by reducing 283 to 1-2 units to reach 10 total.  

**If you register for >10 units, extra tuition fees will apply.

Notes:  

• Given the rigorous curriculum listed, students should expect that classes and fieldwork will fill their days during regular business hours (typically 8:30-5pm). Studying or clinical preparation may extend to weekends or evenings depending on the quarter, the activity and student preferences for organizing their schedule.

• GENE 289 will be taken in the same quarter as your variant interpretation rotation- please discuss timing with your rotation supervisors.  

Exemption Requests:

If you have taken a course focused on embryology or bioethics in the past three years (and received a grade of B or higher) and would like to request an exemption, please compare the syllabus of the course you took to the program required course and ensure all key content has been covered by the course you took. Send a copy of the syllabus of the course you took to your advisor with a statement confirming this course covered the key content, along with a list of other Stanford graduate course(s) that you would prefer to take instead. Your replacement course(s) should be directly relevant to your career goals.

FAQ for course registration:

1. All course registration (and registration changes) occur on axess.stanford.edu.

2. At Stanford, you will pay the same full tuition price for 11-18 units and the same reduced tuition price for 8-10 units. Therefore, you should register for exactly 18 units during each quarter of your first year and exactly 10 units during each quarter of your second year.

3. When registering for courses, please see above for the appropriate grading basis for each class and do not choose the default of "Med/Opt".

4. Second years: GENE 283 provides credits for your research conducted each quarter in order to complete your required research project. While we recommend that you aim for 3 units per quarter of GENE 283 and GENE 276 during your second year, we recognize that electives may take up some of your 10 units. Please consult with your advisor if you need to move GENE 276 or GENE 283 units around so that you do not exceed 10 total units per quarter.

5. You are required to take a research elective to support your completion of the program’s research project requirements– the number of units is not important (i.e. it could be a 1 unit course or multiple 2-3 unit courses). Use GENE 299 in MAP for your research elective if you are taking a research course outside of Stanford. There is “space” in the curriculum to take additional elective courses. We strongly encourage you to sign up for S/NC for any elective courses to ensure that you are able to focus on learning the material rather than earning a specific grade.