Irmgard Nippert

TL;DR: There is a need for a coordinated European effort to improve primary care physicians’ background in medical genetics to improve their ability to carry out basic medical genetic tasks.

TL;DR: The ideal of genetic counselling is rather consistent in the guidelines, but there are some contradictions between the requirements of objective information-giving and adapting counselling to counsellee's circumstances.

TL;DR: In this review, the national guidelines and recommendations for genetic testing for familial/hereditary breast cancer from the UK, France, the Netherlands and Germany were evaluated as to the inclusion criteria for geneticTesting.

TL;DR: There is great heterogeneity in genetic testing services among the countries surveyed and it is premature to mandate that genetic testing provided by clinical services meets professional standards regarding clinical validity and utility, because there is to date no consensus within the scientific community and among health care providers to what extent clinical validity or utility can and need to be assessed.

TL;DR: Investigation of health professional education at undergraduate, postgraduate, and continuing levels in terms of genetic content and delivery in France, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden, and the UK indicates that genetic professionals are influencing the genetic content of medical curricula.