Competency information
Details
Identify ethical and/or cultural issues raised in five observed genetic counselling consultations.
Considerations
- Ethical theory vs ethical governance.
- Different frameworks for thinking about ethics (e.g. normative ethics, consequentialism, deontology, bioethics).
- Professional codes of conduct (e.g. AGNC, GCRB and HCPC and their standards of proficiency for clinical practice).
- How an individual’s beliefs and values may influence their response to genetic testing.
- How an individual’s beliefs and values in relation to genetic counselling and/or testing can contribute to delivering better quality genetic counselling to them.
Relevant learning outcomes
| # | Outcome |
|---|---|
| # 1 | Outcome Lead on establishing the patient agenda and psychosocial needs in complex genetic and genomic counselling consultations, under the supervision of an experienced Genetic Counsellor (GCRB Registered Genetic Counsellor) |
| # 4 | Outcome Use counselling supervision and multidisciplinary meetings to work through ethical and cultural issues in genomic counselling practice. |