Abstract
Megan Tucker talks to Francesca Lake, Managing Editor: A certified genetic counselor for over 10 years, Megan is currently the director of the Indiana State University Genetic Counseling Graduate Program and the Genetic Counseling Clinic at Union Hospital (Terre Haute, IN, USA). She began her career split between the Center for Prenatal Diagnosis and the Medical Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Center at St Vincent Hospital (Indianapolis, IN, USA). During this time she was instrumental in both the development of the statewide Perinatal Loss Evaluation Program and a hospital protocol to ensure collection of cord blood to allow time to effectively genetically evaluate babies. Her current clinical focus is in cancer and psychiatric genetic counseling.
Highlights
QQ Can you tell us a little about your about it at younger ages and people are pickbackground & what led you into genetic ing their undergraduate course work with an counseling?
QQ What would you say is a typical day During my second year of teaching I real- in the life of a genetic counselor?
Ized that I loved the science content and the A typical day is really going to vary based on teaching, but I hated the disciplinary side where a genetic counselor works, and that is of education
Summary
Indiana State University, Genetic Counseling Program, Terre Haute, IN, USA Megan.Tucker@ indstate.edu. We spend time making sure the families are adapting to the information by assessing their social and emotional support network, decision-making strategies and identifying useful resources and things like that For those that work in the clinic, an individual day may consist of actual patient visits and coordinating a variety of aspects of patient care. Even though I might only spend a few hours a day face-to-face with patients, I spend a lot of time coordinating the testing – reaching out to the insurance companies to see if that testing will be covered or writing letters to the patients or healthcare providers regarding the results and so on. The other 30% of genetic counselors may not see patients on a daily basis They may work in results interpretation in a laboratory, or in sales as a science medical liason, at an insurance company, academics, or in governmental positions dealing with public policy, among others. It has been much more recent that there has been this shift where we are working in a lot of different areas, which is really exciting
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