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133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition December 10-14, 2005 Philadelphia, PA |
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Linda W. Prine, MD1, Kamini Geer, MD2, and Susan Rubin, MD2. (1) Department of Family Medicine, Beth Israel Residency in Urban Family Practice, 16 E. 16th Street, New York, NY 10003, 212-366-9320, Lindaprine@earthlink.net, (2) Department of Family Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, 126 Fifth Avenue, Suite 805, New York, NY 10011
A new survey of graduated trainees from the Planned Parenthood of NYC Clinician Training Initiative (CTI) indicates increased numbers of family physicians providing abortions. This presentation will report on the outcomes of two training programs: one training doctors in medication abortion and one in early aspiration abortion (MVA), describing the impact on the numbers of abortion providers in primary care settings. It will show not only how many new physicians received training, but how many have gone on to actually provide abortions. Until now, other studies have not shown that the availability of mifepristone has markedly increased the numbers of abortion providers. This presentation will review the many issues that the two grant-funded programs addressed in order to facilitate family practice physicians becoming abortion providers. It will also demonstrate why this model of helping providers address obstacles to abortion implementation should be used in future efforts to address the shortage of abortion providers.
Learning Objectives:
Keywords: Abortion, Access
Related Web page: www.theaccessproject.org
Presenting author's disclosure statement:
I wish to disclose that I have NO financial interests or other relationship with the manufactures of commercial products, suppliers of commercial services or commercial supporters.
The 133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition (December 10-14, 2005) of APHA