Training activity information
Details
Contribute to the presentation of cases in multidisciplinary team settings, taking into account relevant medical, family, and psychosocial histories, and how they may contribute to the diagnostic pathway where genomic testing approaches may be considered
Type
Developmental training activity (DTA)
Evidence requirements
Evidence the activity has been undertaken by the trainee​.
Reflection on the activity at one or more time points after the event including learning from the activity and/or areas of the trainees practice for development.
An action plan to implement learning and/or to address skills or knowledge gaps identified.
Considerations
- Multidisciplinary teams in a range of settings, e.g. fetal medicine, oncology, neurology, endocrinology, paediatrics, cardiology, ophthalmology, renal and immunology
- Representing family beliefs, values, dynamics and intentions
- Appropriate genomic testing strategies
- Ethical challenges relating to establishing a family diagnosis from genomic results
- Variants of uncertain significance
- Family studies to support variant interpretation
- Inheritance patterns, including: non-penetrance and variable phenotypes
- Evolution of mainstream testing
- Incidental findings
Relevant learning outcomes
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Outcome
Employ knowledge of patient pathways in a range of healthcare settings to contribute to the Genetic Counsellor’s expertise as part of a multidisciplinary team. |