University of Washington
Genetic Counseling Graduate Program
Location: Seattle, WA
Program Length: 18 months
Mission: To be an equitable and inclusive genetic counseling graduate program that provides innovative training of lifelong learners for a career in care, leadership and science to meet the evolving needs of precision health.
Vison: To promote and inform the health of all individuals, families and communities through engagement and personalized genetics care.
Values:
- Care — Training respectful and compassionate health care providers within a supportive environment.
- Innovation — Fostering creative development and delivery of genetics education and health service.
- Collaboration — Building a diverse and inclusive community of students, educators, scientists, health care providers, patients and families.
- GRE – ❌
- International students – ✅
- GPA requirement = min 3.0*
- In-state priority – ❌
- Interviews – Virtual
* below 3.0 GPAs may be considered.
- In-state: $78,870
- Out-of-state: $78,870
- International: $78,870
- Tuition reduction options – ❌
- On-campus work opportunities – ✅
- Match and/or Application Waivers – ❌
- Seattle, WA
- Flexible summer rotation opportunities – ✅
The UW Genetic Counseling Graduate Program is committed to identifying, dismantling and replacing racist behaviors, systems and policies within ourselves and our program. We recognize that racism is institutionalized in the United States, including in health care and in higher education. We are committed to making the UW Genetic Counseling Graduate Program a place where students, faculty, staff and fieldwork supervisors who are Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) are welcomed, feel comfortable and can advance and thrive.
These statements of commitment are meaningless unless they’re backed by action. We’re striving for transparency and accountability in this anti-racism work, so below are some specific things we have done, are doing and will do.
We’ve formed the Diversity, Anti-Racism and Equity (DARE) Committee to ensure we hold ourselves accountable.
We’ve removed the GRE as a requirement for admission because of its racial and gender biases.
We’ve developed a holistic admissions review process to reduce biases that plague more traditional metrics-based admissions.
We’re exploring ways to actively recruit BIPOC students, in part through the UW Health Professions Recruitment Collaborative.
We’re focusing on diversifying our faculty, guest lecturers and staff, including promoting job postings through the Minority Genetic Professionals Network.
Our program leadership team and instructors plans to participate in a two-day Undoing Institutional Racism workshop conducted by The People’s Institute Northwest. Our curriculum includes the same workshop for all students during their first quarter.
We acknowledge that we have an all-white program leadership team. We’re committed to educating ourselves and to doing the anti-racism work, both personally and professionally. We realize that to make true progress, we must actively listen to and take direction from BIPOC folks and then act.
We acknowledge that we have an all-white program leadership team. We’re committed to educating ourselves and to doing the anti-racism work, both personally and professionally. We realize that to make true progress, we must actively listen to and take direction from BIPOC folks and then act.
For more information, please contact gcgp@uw.edu
