INTRODUCTORY PRACTICUM IN GENETIC COUNSELING

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: GENECSLR 713 Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Demonstrate and utilize a depth and breadth of understanding and knowledge of genetics and genomics core concepts and principles. Audience: Graduate 2. Integrate knowledge of psychosocial aspects of conditions with a genetic component to promote client well-being. Audience: Graduate 3. Construct relevant, targeted and comprehensive personal and family histories and pedigrees. Audience: Graduate 4. Identify, assess, order, facilitate, and integrate genetic/genomic testing options in genetic counseling practice (including molecular and non-molecular testing that directly impacts assessment of inherited risk). Audience: Graduate 5. Assess individuals’ and their relatives’ probability of conditions with a genetic component or carrier status based on their pedigree, test result(s), and other pertinent information. Audience: Graduate 6. Demonstrate the skills necessary to success¬fully manage a genetic counseling case. Audience: Graduate 7. Critically assess genetic/genomic, medical and social science literature and information. Audience: Graduate 8. Establish a mutually agreed upon genetic counseling agenda with the client. Audience: Graduate 9. Employ active listening and interviewing skills to identify, assess, and empathically respond to stated and emerging concerns. Audience: Graduate 10. Use a range of genetic counseling skills and models to facilitate informed decision-making and adaptation to genetic risks or conditions. Audience: Graduate 11. Promote client-centered, informed, noncoercive and value-based decision-making. Audience: Graduate 12. Demonstrate understanding of how to adapt genetic counseling skills for varied service delivery models. Audience: Graduate 13. Apply genetic counseling skills in a culturally responsive and respectful manner to all clients. Audience: Graduate 14. Effectively educate clients about a wide range of genetics and genomics information based on their needs, their characteristics and the circumstances of the encounter. Audience: Graduate 15. Write concise and understandable clinical and scientific information for audiences of varying educational backgrounds. Audience: Graduate 16. Effectively give a presentation on genetics, genomics and genetic counseling issues. Audience: Graduate 17. Act in accordance with the ethical, legal and philosophical principles and values of the genetic counseling profession and the policies of one’s institution or organization. Audience: Graduate 18. Demonstrate understanding of the research process. Audience: Graduate 19. Advocate for individuals, families, communities and the genetic counseling profession. Audience: Graduate 20. Demonstrate a self-reflective, evidenced-based and current approach to genetic counseling practice. Audience: Graduate 21. Demonstrate understanding of the methods, roles and responsibilities of the process of clinical supervision of trainees. Audience: Graduate 22. Establish and maintain professional interdisciplinary relationships in both team and one-on-one settings, and recognize one’s role in the larger healthcare system. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Demonstrate and utilize a depth and breadth of understanding and knowledge of genetics and genomics core concepts and principles. Audience: Graduate 2. Integrate knowledge of psychosocial aspects of conditions with a genetic component to promote client well-being. Audience: Graduate 3. Construct relevant, targeted and comprehensive personal and family histories and pedigrees. Audience: Graduate 4. Identify, assess, order, facilitate, and integrate genetic/genomic testing options in genetic counseling practice (including molecular and non-molecular testing that directly impacts assessment of inherited risk). Audience: Graduate 5. Assess individuals’ and their relatives’ probability of conditions with a genetic component or carrier status based on their pedigree, test result(s), and other pertinent information. Audience: Graduate 6. Demonstrate the skills necessary to success¬fully manage a genetic counseling case. Audience: Graduate 7. Critically assess genetic/genomic, medical and social science literature and information. Audience: Graduate 8. Establish a mutually agreed upon genetic counseling agenda with the client. Audience: Graduate 9. Employ active listening and interviewing skills to identify, assess, and empathically respond to stated and emerging concerns. Audience: Graduate 10. Use a range of genetic counseling skills and models to facilitate informed decision-making and adaptation to genetic risks or conditions. Audience: Graduate 11. Promote client-centered, informed, noncoercive and value-based decision-making. Audience: Graduate 12. Demonstrate understanding of how to adapt genetic counseling skills for varied service delivery models. Audience: Graduate 13. Apply genetic counseling skills in a culturally responsive and respectful manner to all clients. Audience: Graduate 14. Effectively educate clients about a wide range of genetics and genomics information based on their needs, their characteristics and the circumstances of the encounter. Audience: Graduate 15. Write concise and understandable clinical and scientific information for audiences of varying educational backgrounds. Audience: Graduate 16. Effectively give a presentation on genetics, genomics and genetic counseling issues. Audience: Graduate 17. Act in accordance with the ethical, legal and philosophical principles and values of the genetic counseling profession and the policies of one’s institution or organization. Audience: Graduate 18. Demonstrate understanding of the research process. Audience: Graduate 19. Advocate for individuals, families, communities and the genetic counseling profession. Audience: Graduate 20. Demonstrate a self-reflective, evidenced-based and current approach to genetic counseling practice. Audience: Graduate 21. Demonstrate understanding of the methods, roles and responsibilities of the process of clinical supervision of trainees. Audience: Graduate 22. Establish and maintain professional interdisciplinary relationships in both team and one-on-one settings, and recognize one’s role in the larger healthcare system. Audience: Graduate