About Us:
GCEI is currently a student-organized group of prospective genetic counselors. Our events are organized by our student staff and in coordination with the genetic counselors who are kind enough to support our efforts. GCEI was started as a response to the shadowing difficulties prospective students were facing from the Covid-19 Pandemic. Our programs have evolved into another way for prospective students to gain exposure to the field. We hope our programs will continue to serve as a way to help decrease the informational gap that exists between prospective students and the field of genetic counseling, especially amongst students with less accessibility to genetic counselors.
If you would like to learn about our latest events, please check us out on your favorite social media sites and consider joining our Discord Server and/or our Emailing List.
You can learn more about our programs below.
Our Programs:
Syndrome Symposiums | The Syndrome Symposiums is a program offered by GCEI focused on providing prospective students with educational information about syndromes seen in the patients genetic counselors treat. The presentations are done by genetic counselors with prospective students welcomed to attend virtually. Recorded presentations can be viewed by joining our Discord server, emailing list and in our unlisted YouTube recording sheet. |
Case Series | The Case Series is a program offered by GCEI focused on providing prospective students with information and examples of how genetic counselors treat their patients and focuses on providing applicable information. The presentations are done by genetic counselors with prospective students welcomed to attend virtually. Recorded presentations can be viewed by joining our Discord server, emailing list and in our unlisted YouTube recording sheet. |
Journal Club | The journal club is a prospective student-organized group that meets to discuss the scientific literature being published by the GC research community. Journal club provides an opportunity for members to develop their analytical skills and provide exposure to current topics for research in the context of the genetic counseling profession. |
Book Club | The Book Club is a prospective student-organized group that meets to discuss books relevant to the field of genetic counseling. The books selected are books suggested by the NSGC and Program Directors from ACGC accredited genetic counseling programs. Books were curated to illuminate new world views to its participants, ranging from patient and medical professional perspectives to the experiences of people with disabilities. Participants can vote for the monthly book via Discord. |
Movie Club | The Movie Club is a prospective student-organized group that meets to discuss visual media relevant to the field of genetic counseling. Our watch list is curated to illuminate new world views to its participants. The media selected varies from movies, short films, and documentaries. Topics depicted include not only the lived experience of living with disabilities and/or genetic disease but also public health and medical ethics. |
Get Involved:
Be a Coordinator | GCEI is able to organize all of our programming thanks to the volunteer efforts of our prospective student coordination team. If you would like to be a coordinator, please join our Discord Server and/or Emailing List to learn when new coordinator positions open up. General Role Requirements for coordinators can be found: Here. |
Be a Speaker | GCEI is able to facilitate meaningful and educational experiences for prospective students because of the genetic counselors and genetic counseling students who volunteer to be our speakers. If you would like to be a speaker please feel free to email us at: gcexperienceinitiative@gmail.com GCEI utilizes a flexible list of objective to help our speakers organize their presentation. You can review the objectives of our Syndrome Symposium and Case Series: Here Please provide your name and details of the presentation you would like to give in addition to potential presentation dates. GCEI takes speakers all year round and will work to schedule presentations at the speaker’s convenience. |
Additional information for speakers on how we organize and promote these programs can be found below: |
Our Use of Zoom & Social Media |
GCEI utilizes Zoom for our presentations and discussions, and social media to promote our programs to prospective students. You can review a detailed description of our use of Zoom and social media: Here |
Contact Us:
If you have additional inquiries about GCEI, please feel free to contact us with your questions and concerns via our Email, Discord Server and Social Media.
gcexperienceinitiative@gmail.com | |||
Discord | The GCEI community and our resources can be continually accessed via this Discord Server. | ||
Social Media |