ESHG pre-meeting courses
With the upcoming 2026 meeting, the ESHG plans to start with a series of so-called “pre-meeting courses”. Education has a prominent place at the annual ESHG meetings. The program of the annual meeting has specific educational sessions and workshops, which give participants the opportunity to learn about the latest developments in the field of human genetics. However, this education tends to focus on the high end of developments, there seem to be less opportunities for participants seeking more basic education and training. The pre-meeting courses plan to fill this gap, i.e. offer on-site education and training in the more basic subjects in human genetics.
The ESHG Education Committee would like to know which subjects you would like to get covered during the pre-meeting courses. Please send wishes, suggestions etc. to courses@eshg.org
Introductory lectures covering the basis of the subjects, will be followed by tasks where the participants will directly apply what was learned by trying to solve practical examples.
More information about the 2026 courses will follow.
Thursday May 22 and Friday May 23at the Allianz MiCo, Milan, Italy
Considerations:
- Focus on the clinical interpretation of variants, only basics of sequencing technologies, not the analysis, not ELSI issues
- Practical course with an emphasis on people working with real data and cases
- Focus on WES and WGS data. This is most used, has most cases and data, and is in important ways similar to WGS
Learning goals:
- How to interpret SNVs from WES data
- How to interpret CNVs from WES data
- What practical tools/databases for WES interpretation are freely available
- How the interpretation of WGS data is different from WES data
Number of participants: 60 people maximum
CME Credits:
“The Clinal NGS Data Interpretation Course , Milan, Italy 22/05/2025 – 23/05/2025 , has been accredited by the European
Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (EACCME®) with 13.0 European CME credits (ECMEC®s). Each medical
specialist should claim only those hours of credit that he/she actually spent in the educational activity.”
“Through an agreement between the Union Européenne des Médecins Spécialistes and the American Medical Association,
physicians may convert EACCME® credits to an equivalent number of AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Information on the
process to convert EACCME® credit to AMA credit can be found at https://edhub.ama-assn.org/pages/applications .
“Live educational activities, occurring outside of Canada, recognised by the UEMS-EACCME® for ECMEC®s are deemed to be
Accredited Group Learning Activities (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College
of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.”
Course fees:
Regular: EUR 200
Trainees: EUR 100
Registration is closed. This course is already fully booked.
