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Cohen Kfir N, Rudolf M, Bentwich ME, Dickman N, Falik-Zaccai TC. 'LEADERS': A culturally tailored approach to genetic counseling for minority populations. J Genet Couns 2021; 30:70-74. [PMID: 33403704 DOI: 10.1002/jgc4.1369] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/25/2020] [Revised: 11/12/2020] [Accepted: 11/23/2020] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Nehama Cohen Kfir
- Azrieli Faculty of Medicine, Bar Ilan University, Safed, Israel.,Institute of Human Genetics, Galilee Medical Center, Nahariya, Israel
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- Azrieli Faculty of Medicine, Bar Ilan University, Safed, Israel
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- Azrieli Faculty of Medicine, Bar Ilan University, Safed, Israel
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- Azrieli Faculty of Medicine, Bar Ilan University, Safed, Israel.,Institute of Human Genetics, Galilee Medical Center, Nahariya, Israel
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Abacan M, Alsubaie L, Barlow-Stewart K, Caanen B, Cordier C, Courtney E, Davoine E, Edwards J, Elackatt NJ, Gardiner K, Guan Y, Huang LH, Malmgren CI, Kejriwal S, Kim HJ, Lambert D, Lantigua-Cruz PA, Lee JMH, Lodahl M, Lunde Å, Macaulay S, Macciocca I, Margarit S, Middleton A, Moldovan R, Ngeow J, Obregon-Tito AJ, Ormond KE, Paneque M, Powell K, Sanghavi K, Scotcher D, Scott J, Juhé CS, Shkedi-Rafid S, Wessels TM, Yoon SY, Wicklund C. The Global State of the Genetic Counseling Profession. Eur J Hum Genet 2019; 27:183-197. [PMID: 30291341 PMCID: PMC6336871 DOI: 10.1038/s41431-018-0252-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 165] [Impact Index Per Article: 33.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/05/2018] [Revised: 07/26/2018] [Accepted: 08/09/2018] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
Abstract
The profession of genetic counseling (also called genetic counselling in many countries) began nearly 50 years ago in the United States, and has grown internationally in the past 30 years. While there have been many papers describing the profession of genetic counseling in individual countries or regions, data remains incomplete and has been published in diverse journals with limited access. As a result of the 2016 Transnational Alliance of Genetic Counseling (TAGC) conference in Barcelona, Spain, and the 2017 World Congress of Genetic Counselling in the UK, we endeavor to describe as fully as possible the global state of genetic counseling as a profession. We estimate that in 2018 there are nearly 7000 genetic counselors with the profession established or developing in no less than 28 countries.
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- MaryAnn Abacan
- Institute of Human Genetics, National Institutes of Health, University of the Philippines Manila, Manila, Philippines
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- King Abdullah Specialized Children's Hospital (KASCH), King Abdulaziz Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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- Northern Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Cancer Genetics Service, Division of Medical Oncology, National Cancer Centre, Singapore, Singapore
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- Transnational Alliance for Genetic Counseling, University of South Carolina Genetic Counseling Program, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA
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- Organization for Rare Diseases India, Cloudnine Hospitals, Bangalore, India
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- Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- School of Nursing, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan
- School of Nursing, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Center for Fetal Medicine and Clinical Genetics, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Public Health and Caring Science, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
- Department of Women's and Children's Health, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Institute for Public Health Genetics, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
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- Ajou Univ. Medical School and Konyang Univ. Graduate school, Yeongtong-gu, Suwon, South Korea
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- Department of Clinical Genetics Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- Division of Human Genetics, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand & The National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa
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- Victorian Clinical Genetics Services, Melbourne, Australia
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- Clínica Alemana Universidad del Desarrollo, Facultad de Medicina, Centro de Genética y Genómica, Santiago, Chile
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- Society and Ethics Research, Connecting Science, Wellcome Genome Campus, Cambridge, UK
- Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Psychology, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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- Cancer Genetics Service, Division of Medical Oncology, National Cancer Centre, Singapore, Singapore
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- Department of Genetics and Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.
- Stanford University School of Medicine, 300 Pasteur Drive, MC 5208, Stanford, CA, USA.
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- i3S - Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, CGPP - Centre for Predictive and Preventive Genetics and IBMC - Institute for Molecular and Cell Biology, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
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- The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine, Farmington, CT, USA
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- Manchester Centre for Genomic Medicine, Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Saint Mary's Hospital, Manchester, UK
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- University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Departament de Ciències Experimentals i de la Salut, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Institut Hospital del Mar d'Investigacions Mèdiques, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Raras, Barcelona, Spain
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- Division Human Genetics, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Cancer Research, Subang Jaya, Malaysia
- University Malaya Medical Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- National University of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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Ingvoldstad C, Seven M, Taris N, Cordier C, Paneque M, Skirton H. Components of genetic counsellor education: A systematic review of the peer-reviewed literature. J Community Genet 2015; 7:107-18. [PMID: 26452349 DOI: 10.1007/s12687-015-0255-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2015] [Accepted: 09/28/2015] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
Abstract
The need for appropriately trained genetic counsellors to support genetic healthcare is now acknowledged. However, while programmes for education of genetic counsellors exist in a number of countries, these do not conform to any specific international standards. As genetic techniques, educational standards and professional standards have been evolved, and with increasing mobility of genetic counsellors, it is of great importance to have some comparison of education and training between different countries. This systematic review was conducted to determine the components of educational programmes for genetic counsellors worldwide that have been published in peer-reviewed literature. Databases were searched for studies published in English from 2000 to 2014 related to the topic. We identified 406 potential papers, of these, 11 studies met the inclusion criteria. The findings indicate that, in most cases, the theoretical components of genetic counsellor programmes conform to the recommendations and requirements of relevant professional bodies. However, clinical preparation of genetic counsellors in real-life professional practice settings seems to be less well addressed as this is essential to ensure genetic counsellors are able to provide safe patient care after graduation. Further work to gain agreement internationally on genetic counsellor education is needed.
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- C Ingvoldstad
- Karolinska Institute, CLINTECH, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Stockholm, Sweden.
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- Koç University School of Nursing, İstanbul, Turkey
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- Department of Oncogenetics, Centre Paul Strauss, Strasbourg, France
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- Department of Oncogenetics, Hospital of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
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- Center for Predictive and Preventive Genetics, Institute for Molecular and Cell Biology, Porto, Portugal
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- Faculty of Health and Human Sciences, Plymouth University, Plymouth, UK
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