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The clinical and non-clinical fieldwork experience provide students with opportunities to develop their counseling skills in a broad range of settings. \u00a0These first-hand experiences familiarize students with individuals and families affected by a variety of genetic disorders.<\/p>\n
Students have the opportunity to participate in fieldwork at Boston University\/Boston Medical Center (Prenatal Genetics, Pediatric Genetics, Cancer Genetics, Breast Health Program, Autism Research Center of Excellence,\u00a0Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics clinics, Maternal Fetal Medicine clinic, Amyloid Treatment Program, and Sickle Cell Clinic), as well as at most all of the area hospitals throughout Boston and greater Boston. These experiences cover a diversity of clinical experiences at some of the best ranked hospitals in the nation which are on the cutting edge of medical care, genomics and research. Fieldwork experiences include:<\/p>\n
During the first year, students observe in a genetic counseling (or related) clinic for one half-day or full day per week. \u00a0The observations include several core clinics at Boston Medical Center (BMC), including prenatal, pediatric \u00a0and cancer genetics, as well as several specialty clinics within and outside of BMC.<\/p>\n
During the second semester, students continue to observe in specialty clinics, but they begin active participation in the core genetics clinics at BMC. \u00a0Student participation in counseling sessions includes case preparation, contracting with patients, obtaining prenatal, medical and family history information and explaining basic genetic concepts to patients. \u00a0It is expected that each student takes the lead counseling role in at least two full cases (for a common referral reason) before the end of the first year. Students are also involved in reviewing patient charts and online medical records, collecting patient literature and testing information and writing follow-up letters.<\/p>\n
During the intervening summer, each student spends six weeks full-time (or 30 days total) at an external rotation site. Students are encouraged to brainstorm early about potential cities and\/or clinics of interest. \u00a0To date, we have arranged clinical rotations in a wide variety of sub-specialties and cities, including San Francisco, Miami, New York, Seattle, Portland (ME), Cleveland, Philadelphia, Houston, Los Angeles, Portland (OR), Washington D.C., San Diego, Anchorage, Hanoi and Madrid.<\/p>\n
During the second year, each student completes 4 seven-week rotations at sites within Boston Medical Center and throughout New England. \u00a0Each student will intern at a prenatal, pediatric\/general, cancer and non-clinical\u00a0site. \u00a0The non-clinical sites include opportunities in labs, research, industry, public health and advocacy. \u00a0Placements are assigned based on the student\u2019s interest and site availability. \u00a0Each rotation is approximately two full-days per week (or 14 days total). \u00a0Students typically require access to a car for 1-2 of these rotations. \u00a0For students who prefer not to own or borrow a car, we encourage them to inquire about Zipcar<\/a>, a popular car sharing service here in Boston, or take the MBTA commuter rail (when applicable).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The clinical and non-clinical fieldwork experience provide students with opportunities to develop their counseling skills in a broad range of settings. \u00a0These first-hand experiences familiarize students with individuals and families affected by a variety of genetic disorders. Students have the opportunity to participate in fieldwork at Boston University\/Boston Medical Center (Prenatal Genetics, Pediatric Genetics, Cancer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2491,"featured_media":0,"parent":19244,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19231"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2491"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19231"}],"version-history":[{"count":44,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104606,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19231\/revisions\/104606"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}