TY - JOUR
T1 - Victor McKusick and his short course
AU - Wray, Charles
AU - Cox, Gregory
AU - Valle, David
N1 - Funding Information:
Over the years, the SC has been funded, primarily, by the March of Dimes and the NIH. From its inception in 1960 until 2018, grants from the March of Dimes (previously The National Foundation) supported the SC. In 1985, JAX received T15 grant support from the National Institute of Child Health and Development (NICHD). Five JAX faculty have served as PIs on NICHD course support grants from 1985 to present; during the last decade the mechanism shifted from a T15 to a R25. Greg Cox is PI with David Valle as co-PI on the current award (5R25HDO079344-08). The SC has also been supported by an Advanced Courses grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) and receives registration funds from participants. Over the last decade significant student scholarship funds have been provided by HHMI and NICHD. Details regarding the registration fees and scholarships are available at the SC web site, https://www.jax.org/education-and-learning/education-calendar/2021/07-july/62nd-mckusick-short-course. The SC is currently supported by an R25 grant from NICHD with Greg Cox as PI (5R25HDO079344-08).
Funding Information:
The plan materialized quickly; the first SC was held one year later (August 7–18, 1960) in Bar Harbor at Bowdoin College's Oakes Center located on the shores of Frenchman's Bay (Figure 1 ). Victor had obtained funding from the National Foundation March of Dimes as part of its program on birth defects (see Funding) (Fuller & McKusick, 1961 ; McKusick, 1972 ). The initial structure (four morning lectures, optional afternoon workshops and an evening lecture) allowed time for presentation of considerable formal content as well as informal one‐on‐one interactions between students and faculty and has persisted to the present. In the first year, there were approximately 45 students and a faculty comprised of nine from Johns Hopkins (JH), 11 from JAX and eight “visiting” lecturers from various academic centers. In an invited critique of this first SC, the participant's comments were encouraging (or as Victor said, the “favorable comments outweighed the negative”) and were used to make modifications in the subsequent 1961 version. And so, the sprout took root.
Funding Information:
The SC is currently supported by an R25 grant from NICHD with Greg Cox as PI (5R25HDO079344‐08).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 The Authors. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A published by Wiley Periodicals LLC.
PY - 2021/11
Y1 - 2021/11
N2 - The Short Course in Human and Mammalian Genetics and Genomics (aka the “Short Course” or the “Bar Harbor course”) is one of Victor McKusick's landmark contributions to medical genetics. Conceived in 1959 as a way to increase the contribution of genetic advances to medicine, it has directly affected more than 7000 students and 600 participating faculty from around the world. Now, more than 10 years after his death, it continues to be a vibrant disseminator of genetics, and genomics knowledge for medicine, a catalytic agent for ongoing research and a source of collegiality in our field. What an extraordinary gift!.
AB - The Short Course in Human and Mammalian Genetics and Genomics (aka the “Short Course” or the “Bar Harbor course”) is one of Victor McKusick's landmark contributions to medical genetics. Conceived in 1959 as a way to increase the contribution of genetic advances to medicine, it has directly affected more than 7000 students and 600 participating faculty from around the world. Now, more than 10 years after his death, it continues to be a vibrant disseminator of genetics, and genomics knowledge for medicine, a catalytic agent for ongoing research and a source of collegiality in our field. What an extraordinary gift!.
KW - Johns Hopkins
KW - The Bar Harbor Course
KW - The Jackson Laboratory
KW - education
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U2 - 10.1002/ajmg.a.62435
DO - 10.1002/ajmg.a.62435
M3 - Article
C2 - 34402580
AN - SCOPUS:85112677087
SN - 1552-4825
VL - 185
SP - 3242
EP - 3252
JO - American Journal of Medical Genetics, Part A
JF - American Journal of Medical Genetics, Part A
IS - 11
ER -