Description: Lecture, four hours. Limited to Genetic Counseling students. Focus on specialty genetics topics including cancer, cardiogenetics, and neurogenetics. Exploration of aspects of these disciplines in context of genetic counseling. Discussion of impact of our growing knowledge of both common and rare genomic etiology on risk assessment, clinical management, and genetic counseling. Practical exercises include case preparation, medical and family history analysis, risk assessment and counseling, differential diagnosis development, diagnostic testing selection (including analytic validity, clinical validity, and clinical utility of diagnostic and predictive tests), results interpretation, patient education, and psychosocial counseling specific to cancer genetics, cardiogenetics, and neurogenetics. Patients as guest speaks offer patient perspective and experience. Letter grading.

Units: 4.0