Continuing education and professional development: Unifying opportunities for genetic counselors globally

Kathleen D. Valverde*, Tiffiney R. Hartman, Sara L. Reichert, Robin L. Bennett, Martha Dudek, Debra Duquette, Daniel Riconda, Nancy J. Cox, Gail P. Jarvik, Sarah H. Elsea, Elizabeth M. McNally, Kim C. Worley, Daniel J. Rader

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Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number101854
JournalGenetics in Medicine Open
Volume2
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 2024

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The authors thank the Warren Alpert Foundation for its support of genetic counseling professional development and the support to create the continuing professional development course described in this paper, Bridging the Gap: A Clinical Genetic Counselor's Guide to Molecular Diagnostics and Variant Interpretation.\u201D, The Warren Alpert Foundation supported this project by funding the Career Ladder Education Program for Genetic Counselors (D.J.R. and K.D.V.). Conceptualization: K.D.V. T.R.H. S.L.R. D.J.R.; Methodology: K.D.V. T.R.H. S.L.R. R.L.B. M.D. D.D. D.R. N.J.C. G.P.J. S.H.E. E.M.M. K.C.M. D.J.R.; Project Administration: K.D.V. T.R.H. S.L.R. D.J.R.; Visualization: K.D.V. T.R.H. S.L.R. D.J.R.; Writing-original draft: K.D.V. T.R.H. S.L.R. D.J.R.; Writing-review and editing: K.D.V. T.R.H. S.L.R. R.L.B. M.D. D.D. D.R. N.J.C. G.P.J. S.H.E. E.M.M. K.C.W. D.J.R. Kathleen D. Valverde: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6515-8982, Tiffiney R. Hartman: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9887-5002, Sara L. Reichert: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0965-7506, Robin L. Bennett: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4644-9933, Martha Dudek: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6214-3715, Debra Duquette: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0756-272X, Daniel Riconda: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4553-5722, Nancy J. Cox: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9315-0830, Gail P. Jarvik: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6710-8708, Sarah H. Elsea: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1400-8519, Elizabeth M. McNally: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5808-5532, Kim C. Worley: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0282-1000, Daniel J. Rader: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9245-9876, No human subjects or institutional review board approval was needed for this commentary.

Keywords

  • Continuing education
  • Continuing professional development
  • Genetic counseling
  • Online asynchronous courses

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous)
  • Cell Biology
  • Genetics
  • Molecular Biology

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