Program‐level clinical remediation in genetic counseling training programs aims to help students who are underperforming gain clinical skills to successfully manage clinical counseling sessions with patients. Student remediation often requires intervention, including discussions with program leadership and/or a formal remediation plan through the program. This study surveyed genetic counseling program leaders to explore the remediation landscape by identifying skills in which students underperformed, program remediation activities to improve skills, and remediation outcomes. Thirteen participants indicated their program required at least one student to complete program‐level clinical remediation during the last 10 years. Eight of the 13 programs (61.5%) required at least one student to participate in clinical remediation for underperformance in professionalism, seven (53.8%) for underperformance in educating patients, six (46.2%) for underperformance in critical thinking, and two (15.4%) for underperformance in demonstrating empathy. Nineteen students were remediated for underperformance in critical thinking. Of those 19 students, one student (5.2%) was dismissed from the training program, and five students (26.3%) chose to withdraw from their program. One of 13 (7.7%) students remediated for underperformance in educating patients and one of 11 (9.1%) students remediated for underperformance in professionalism chose to withdraw from their programs. All students remediated for underperformance in demonstrating empathy successfully completed program‐level clinical remediation and graduated. The most frequently endorsed factor positively associated with remediation success was completion of additional in‐person patient encounters. The most frequent barrier was a student's poor mental health. Participants most frequently endorsed identification of resources for specific areas of remediation to improve their programs' efficacy in clinical remediation practices. This exploratory study provides valuable information describing clinical skills that require remediation in genetic counseling graduate training, the remediation practices utilized by training programs, and resources that may increase remediation success.
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