“…Since the completion of the Human Genome Project, there is a growing recognition worldwide of the importance of genetics education for physicians [6][7][8] As a result, there have been studies on how and when genetics is taught in the medical curriculum [9,10]. Most medical schools in Canada and the United States were shown to devote an average of 36 hours (with a range of 18-102 hours) of teaching to medical genetics with the most commonly taught topics being cancer genetics, Mendelian disorders, cancer genetics, multi factorial inheritance, clinical cytogenetic, and patterns of inheritance [10].…”