Practice Documents I
This document delineates the work of a clinical genetic counselor
What is the NSGC Scope of Practice?
The mission of this organization is to advance the various roles of genetic counselors in healthcare by fostering education, research, and public policy to ensure the availability of quality genetic services.
What is the NSGC?
For a bonus 100 points, can you name the current president of NSGC?
Data for this document is collected every two years and is used to offer an inside view of the genetic counseling profession?
What is the NSGC Professional Status Survey?
This individual coined the term, "genetic counseling" soon after he joined the Dight Institute for Human Genetics at the University of Minnesota.
Who is Sheldon Reed, PhD?
The data from this document can be used for salary negotiations, development of business plans, and faculty status negotiations.
What is the Professional Status Survey?
This document must include a systematic review of evidence.
What is a clinical practice guideline?
The mission of this organization is to protect the public by setting certification standards and providing leadership to promote the value of certified genetic counselors.
What is the American Board of Genetic Counseling?
Currently 25 states have this regulation in place?
What is genetic counselor licensure?
This individual is credited with developing the first genetic counseling graduate program.
Who is Melissa Richter, PhD?
This state was the first state to pass genetic counselor licensure.
What is California?
This document attempts to clarify and guide the conduct of a professional so that the goals and values of the profession must best be served.
What is the Code of Ethics?
The mission of this organization is to advance quality in genetic counseling education by developing standards, and by evaluating and accrediting programs.
What is the Accreditation Council for Genetic Counseling?
These documents are used to promote NSGC's stance on critical topics.
What are the NSGC Position Statements?
This professional organization was established in 1979.
What is the National Society of Genetic Counselors?
This person is the current president of the National Society of Genetic Counselors.
Who is Gillian Hooker?
This document is aimed to uphold the integrity of the NSGC and the activities it undertakes.
What are the Conflict of Interest Policies?
The mission of this organization is to advance human genetics in science, health, and society through excellence in research, education, and advocacy.
What is the American Society of Human Genetics?
This document defines and describes the twenty-two competencies that an entry-level provider must demonstrate to successfully practice as a genetic counselor. It provides guidance for the training of genetic counselors and an assessment for maintenance of competency of practicing genetic counselors.
What are the Practice-Based Competencies for Genetic Counselors?
Bonus point: Which organization develops the PBC's
This highly prestigious award was established in 1991 and is given to a full member of the NSGC in order to promote the professional development of individual counselors and to improve the practice of genetic counseling by providing support for scholarly investigation of any aspect of the profession. Awards under entity are also given to students to support their thesis research.
What is the Jane Engelberg Memorial Fellowship?
This person is the president of the American Board of Genetic Counselors.
Who is Adam Buchanan?
Which two genetic counselor faculty members helped write the NSGC Conflict of Interest Policies?
Who are Dawn Allain and Leigha Senter?
The mission of this organization is engage individuals, families, and communities to transform health.
What is the Genetic Alliance?
These three publications advance the development of knowledge and informs genetic professionals' practice and research.
What are the Journal of Genetic Counseling, Genetics in Medicine, and the American Journal of Human Genetics?
These entities will be matriculating graduate students for the first time this fall (2020).
What are the Kean University and the University of California Los Angeles Genetic Counseling Graduate Programs?
These Columbus genetic counselors have been past members of the NSGC Board of Directors.
Who are Dawn Allain, Leigha Senter, Heather Hampel, Rebecca Nagy, Amy Sturm, Elizabeth Varga, and Robert Pilarski?