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Have some questions about how Canada’s genetic non-discrimination act works and what it means for your practice? Check out Canadian Family Physician for a free access article:
Cowan JS, Kagedan BL, Graham GE, Heim-Myers B, Bombard Y. Health care implications of the Genetic Non-Discrimination Act: Protection for Canadians' genetic information. Can Fam Physician. 2022 Sep;68(9):643-646. PMID: 36100377
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Ever wondered how we do what we do and do it so well? Check out our poster that highlights best practices for a successful genomics education program
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Want to know what’s happening with the Canadian Familial Hypercholesterolemia Registry?
Check out the 2022 Annual Progress Report describing various initiatives, publications, highlighting the CardioRisk Calculator App which can be used to make a clinical diagnosis of FH for your patients.
- Written by Super User
- Written by Super User
On May 4, 2017 the Genetic Non-Discrimination Act (GNA), formerly known as Bill S-201, was passed into law in Canada!
The Canadian Association of Genetic Counsellors (CAGC) has developed an informative Fact Sheet highlighting important details for discussion among health care providers and patients.
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Schulich Medicine and Dentistry, Children’s Health Research Institute, Medical Genetics Program of Southwestern Ontario and Western University are putting on a symposium for Primary Care Providers titled Genetics in Your Practice. A brochure for this day can be found here.
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The GECKO website has many resources for healthcare providers, primary care providers and other non-genetics health professionals. All products are expert reviewed, up-to-date and evidence-based.
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Our understanding of the contribution of genetics to ill-health and disease is growing exponentially, providing many examples of the use of genetics knowledge and genetic tests in mainstream healthcare. These scientific and technological advances have changed the needs of practitioners, patients and the public. The growing number of genetic tests places increased demands on practitioners to provide up-to-date and relevant information to patients.
We have created PowerPoint presentations, found in the Education Modules menu, for a range of genetic and genomic topics to be used by educators and motivated learners. All of these sessions have been delivered to primary care audiences by the GEC-KO team and the team has received very positive feedback. Each module is up-to-date, evidence-based and has accompanying resources such as a point of care tool, a GEC-KO on the run and/or a GEC-KO Messenger. One can use, adapt and re-purpose these slides as required.
Current topics include:
- Alzheimer disease (AD)
- Autism Spectrum Disorder & Developmental Delay and Chromosomal Microarray (ASD & DD and CMA)
- Direct to Consumer genetic testing (DTC)
- Factor V Leiden (FVL)
- Hereditary Hemochromatosis (HH)
- Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (HCM)
- Lynch syndrome (LS) [hereditary colorectal cancer]
- Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
- Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing (NIPT)
Upcoming topics include:
- Prenatal Microarray
- Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer
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Sorry that we’ve been a bit absent on our blog. We’ve been busy on the road highlighting GEC-KO, our products and relevant genomic information across the nation. Two weeks ago we were in beautiful Vancouver, BC at the Canadian Association of Genetic Counsellors (CAGC) and the Canadian College of Medical Geneticists (CCMG) joint meeting. We presented data from needs assessments we conducted of our primary stakeholders (primary care providers and genetics health professionals) to our genetics colleagues. We were met with great excitement and support for our program!! This past week were in la belle Quebec City, QC at the College of Family Physician Canada (CFPC) Family Medicine Forum (FMF). We presented the genomics workshop ‘Untangling the helix: Genomics for primary care providers’ to a bright and engaged audience. It was a fantastic turn out for an 8:30am, Saturday morning, last day of the conference time slot :) This workshop was dense with content and point of care information and tools for primary care providers in a case-based format. We will be repeated this workshop at the Ontario College of Family Physicians (OCFP) Annual Scientific Assembly (ASA) in Toronto, ON on Thursday November 27th, 2014 at 10:45am at the Hilton Toronto. Please join us if you can!! All of the Point of Care tools, GEC-KO on the runs and GEC-KO Messengers are available online now. The Education Modules will be available after the ASA meeting – so be sure to come back!! The topics are: factor V Leiden, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, Alzheimer disease, Autism Spectrum Disorder/Developmental Delay and Multiple Sclerosis.
For more up-to-date updates, don’t forget to follow us on Twitter @GECKOgenetics!!
