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What is Genetic Counseling?
Genetic counselors are Master's-trained health care professionals who combine their knowledge of basic science, medical genetics, epidemiological principles, and counseling theory with their skills in genetic risk assessment, education, interpersonal communication and counseling to provide services to clients and their families for a diverse set of genetic or genomic indications.
Genetic counselors are employed in many settings such as medical centers, physician offices, health maintenance organizations, advocacy organizations, governmental agencies, public health departments, and biotechnology companies.
Those in clinical practice provide education and counseling in areas including:
reproductive genetics
infertility and preimplantation genetic diagnosis
pediatric genetics
newborn screening follow-up
cancer genetics
neurogenetics, and
cardiovascular genetics.
Many genetic counselors are actively involved in teaching and research. The profession is growing rapidly with the number of certified genetic counselors increasing over 400 % since 1992.
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