World Congress on Genetic Counselling 2017

World Congress on Genetic Counselling is organized by Wellcome Genome Campus and would be held during Oct 04 - 06, 2017 at Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, England, United Kingdom. This CME Conference has been approved with a maximum of 12 hours of Continuing Professional Development Credits.

Course Description:
This new conference will provide a forum that facilitates active engagement between international researchers and practitioners to explore the evidence that guides genetic counselling and the communication of genetics in mainstream medicine, thereby enhancing clinical practice. The conference will bring together genetic counsellors, other practicing clinicians (genetic nurses, clinical/medical geneticists, and others using genetic technology in their practice) and academics (social scientists, psychologists and geneticists).

The programme will follow the ’patient journey’ through the counselling process, starting with how people understand genetics before they become patients, how their initial conversations with genetics services are conducted, how communication theory guides practice, through to what counts as success in genetic counselling. We will explore new approaches to facilitate communication around genetic information, discuss the current challenges in obtaining consent when combining clinical care and research, and debate the relevance of communication theory in modern genetic counselling practice.

Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.