Geneticist
Minimum Education Requirement: M.D. or D.O. degree and completed an ACGME- or AOA-accredited program of postgraduate specialty training.
Healthcare Professional
The men and women of the Air Force, as well as their families, can suffer the same genetic issues as anyone else. As an Air Force Geneticist, you’ll care for the entire Air Force family whether they suffer minor birth defects or severe genetic disorders. And since the Air Force runs the only full-service genetics laboratory in the entire Department of Defense, you’ll provide care to people from around the world.
Career Tasks
- Evaluate and follow pediatric patients with genetic disorders
- Provide counseling to families with cancer and other heritable diseases and provide prenatal counseling
- Perform prenatal diagnostic procedures, depending on training
- Physicians certified in clinical molecular genetics or cytogenetics will be responsible for all aspects of a clinical diagnostic laboratory, interacting with ordering physicians and laboratories
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