IN CONNECTION WITH its sixth annual meeting, the American Society of Human Genetics sponsored a symposium on Human Genetics and Medical Education in Boston on December 28, 1953. Speakers on the symposium, which was organized by Dr. Madge T. Macklin, included Drs. Louis K. Diamond, Harold F. Falls, F. Clarke Fraser, C. Nash Herndon, James V. Neel and Lawrence H. Snyder. The teaching of genetics was considered both in relation to the medical curriculum and in the training of house officers and in postgraduate courses of medical instruction. The paper by Dr. Herndon, published on the following pages, dealing with the current efforts of medical schools to provide instruction in human genetics, was thought to be of especial interest to readers of The Journal of MEDICAL EDUCATION.