26.2 Adequate Experiences
Students are expected to have a breadth and depth of experience that provides exposure to a range of patients and settings. It is the Program’s responsibility to ensure students have fieldwork experiences that provide access to the various required encounters. Students’ experiences are tracked using the E*Value system.
- A minimum of 50 participatory cases with a client (may include standardized patient, but not genetic counseling student role play, and/or research participant if providing clinical genetic counseling services in a research protocol) from a wide variety of clinical settings and service delivery models are required, reflecting students’ robust and evolving clinical involvement.
- Participatory cases focus on the development of the practice-based competencies (PBCs).
- At least 40 of the 50 participatory cases must be with individuals being evaluated for risk of or affected by diverse genetic conditions across the lifespan (i.e., non-standardized patients; not a research participant).
- The 50 participatory cases must be supervised by an experienced ABGC/ABMG/CAGC certified genetic counselor. All healthcare professionals including Board-certified medical geneticists may supervise non-participatory cases.
- Documentation of cases must also include the following information/categories:
- Fieldwork name
- Term and year of client encounter
- Fieldwork supervisor
- PBC(s) addressed
- Type of practice setting (e.g., clinical, laboratory, research, industry, other)
- Type of service delivery model (e.g., in person, telephone, telemedicine, group, other)
- Type of client (e.g., standardized patient, non-standardized patient, healthcare provider, research participant)
- Stage of lifecycle for the client (e.g., prenatal, pediatric, adult)
- Primary indication/diagnosis