The COVID-19 pandemic created unprecedented challenges worldwide that required rapid adaptation and transformation across the entire healthcare system. Graduate medical training programs across all specialties have moved to rapidly adjust to the virtual landscape. This created a unique opportunity for genetic counselors who work in industry and within diagnostic laboratories to develop internship and rotation programs that can be offered virtually to meet the needs of genetic counseling training programs. Myriad Genetics, Inc., was contacted by numerous graduate programs in genetic counseling beginning in March 2020 requesting the opportunity for their students to participate in remote laboratory-based rotations. As a result of these requests, a working group of genetic counselors across Myriad came together to adapt existing experiences to fully remote formats and develop new remote-based opportunities for students. We describe our experience of expanding genetic counseling student rotations during the COVID-19 pandemic with the goal of providing examples of remote learning experiences that may be applicable to other diagnostic laboratory industry-based rotations for genetic counseling students. In 2020, a total of 59 second-year genetic counseling students, from 21 different genetic counseling training programs, participated in one of five different virtual experiences. Furthermore, two new rotation experiences were created to increase capacity and highlight diversity of industry roles. Genetic counselors in industry are uniquely positioned to provide both remote training opportunities for genetic counseling students and exposure to the variety of roles that genetic counselors can occupy. Increasing the exposure to these roles is important as the genetic counseling workforce continues to expand and diversify, and it is imperative among all programs to enable access to these opportunities.

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行业中的遗传咨询学生轮换：COVID-19 如何放大不同培训环境中虚拟学习选项的紧迫性

COVID-19 大流行在全球范围内带来了前所未有的挑战，需要整个医疗保健系统快速适应和转型。所有专业的研究生医学培训计划已迅速适应虚拟环境。这为在工业和诊断实验室工作的遗传咨询师创造了一个独特的机会，可以开发实习和轮换计划，这些计划可以虚拟提供以满足遗传咨询培训计划的需求。从 2020 年 3 月开始，无数遗传咨询研究生项目联系了 Myriad Genetics, Inc.，要求他们的学生有机会参加基于远程实验室的轮换。由于这些要求，Myriad 的一个遗传顾问工作组聚集在一起，将现有经验调整为完全远程格式，并为学生开发新的远程机会。我们描述了我们在 COVID-19 大流行期间扩大遗传咨询学生轮换的经验，目的是提供远程学习经验的例子，这些经验可能适用于其他基于诊断实验室行业的遗传咨询学生轮换。2020 年，共有来自 21 个不同遗传咨询培训项目的 59 名二年级遗传咨询学生参加了五种不同的虚拟体验。此外，还创建了两个新的轮换体验，以提高容量并突出行业角色的多样性。行业中的遗传咨询师处于独特的地位，既可以为遗传咨询学生提供远程培训机会，又可以接触遗传咨询师可以担任的各种角色。随着遗传咨询队伍的不断扩大和多样化，增加对这些角色的接触很重要，并且在所有计划中都必须能够获得这些机会。