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发帖数: 1 | 1 Hi all,
I'm not good at typing with Pinyin, so forgive me for using English. I did
not use MITBBS for the past 7 years and I could not reactivate my previous
account, so I register a new account.
I benefited a lot from MITBBS, including the message posted in this forum on
the ABMGG (American Board of Medical Genetics and Genomics) LGG (Laboratory
Genetics and Genomics) path that I eventually took and benefited greatly
from. This post is just to bring this opportunity to the attention of those
who may be interested.
Some of you here may have been aware of this opportunity in the ABMGG LGG
fellowship program. When I decided to take this path, there were only about
25 programs, but now there are a total of 39. Please see the link here:
http://www.abmgg.org/pdf/Laboratory%20Genetics%20and%20Genomics%20Programs.pdf.
From ABMGG website, you can learn a lot from it: http://www.abmgg.org/. While nobody can guarantee a faculty position, the vast majority of people who graduated from this PhD clinical fellowship program find a good positive in decent universities. Many good clinical genetics labs actually have difficulty in recruiting qualified graduates to fill the vacancy left by people retiring due to COVID. Usually, you will join as a clinical assistant professor and can be promoted to clinical associate professor with a few first/last author papers in 5-7 years. You need to be well established to be promoted to a clinical professorship. There is usually no tenure (hence no grant requirement either), but you have great job security in this field. You will get a higher salary if you choose to go to a commercial lab.
I saw many Chinese colleagues in this field, and many of them are in
leadership positions. And I would love to see more competent Chinese with a
research background join the promising and rewarding field.
The LGG training is 2 years (previously it was 3 years), so there are lot to
learn, but it's manageable for most hard-working people. A medical
background from China will be helpful, but the majority of trainees only had
a PhD in biomedical research. There is no easy path, but this one is a much
better (better pay and less stress) one than many other paths.
The most difficult step is to enter one of the programs. Connection, i.e.,
knowing the faculty of the program especially the program director, is most
crucial. So if there is a program in the University you currently work or
study, you will have a better chance (and I benefited in this way). One
possible way is to have the observation of clinical genetics case sign out
or work in the lab as a tech for one or two years first. But I saw people
got connections from the ACMG (American College of Medical Genetics and
Genomics) annual meeting, AMP (Association for Molecular Pathology) annual
meeting, or CGC (Cancer Genomics Consortium) annual meeting.
A green card will make the application easier, but many programs will
sponsor H1B too. Many times it just depends on how much the program knows
you and the luck.
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