Single center experience developing sustainable genetics clinical care: a model to address workforce challenges in medical genetics.
Journal
Current opinion in pediatrics
ISSN: 1531-698X
Titre abrégé: Curr Opin Pediatr
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 9000850
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
13 Sep 2024
13 Sep 2024
Historique:
medline:
22
9
2024
pubmed:
22
9
2024
entrez:
19
9
2024
Statut:
aheadofprint
Résumé
The national workforce shortage in genetics is being evaluated in order to identify a sustainable solution to the increasing demand for genomic services. An innovative solution to the short term needs is to integrate advanced practice providers (APPs) and embed genetic counselors into both outpatient and inpatient specialty care. Incorporating APPs into a genetic service is not unique in itself, but the method of implementation at Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) was, at the time, unchartered. There are >100 vacancies for board certified medical geneticists across the nation, training programs are not enrolling sufficient trainees to meet demand and more than a third of the current workforce plan to retire within the next 10 years. The integration of advanced practice providers (nurse practitioners, midwives, physician assistants etc.) into both primary and specialty care has been an evolving practice since the mid-1900s and incorporating APPs into a genetic service was not unique in itself but the method of implementation was new at that time. This is a model to successfully develop a clinical practice model around a team-based structure incorporating nurse clinicians, advanced practice providers, genetic counselors, nutritionists, and physicians into an academic clinical genetics practice.
Identifiants
pubmed: 39297693
doi: 10.1097/MOP.0000000000001404
pii: 00008480-990000000-00216
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc.
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