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Chapter 10 - Starting and Optimizing an Academic Abortion Service

from Section II - Integration of Abortion into Graduate Medical Education

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 July 2021

By
Karen Meckstroth
Edited by
Uta Landy ,
Philip D Darney  and
Jody Steinauer
Uta Landy
Affiliation:
University of California, San Francisco
Philip D Darney
Affiliation:
University of California, San Francisco
Jody Steinauer
Affiliation:
University of California, San Francisco
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Summary

Abortion is generally a simple, safe procedure; providing it in a general academic obgyn setting poses unique opportunities and challenges for patients, providers and learners. This chapter reviews options and considerations and provides resources for starting and improving a teaching abortion service, including guidelines, patient education, and important relationships to consider. The family planning teaching services at UCSF and UCSF’s Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital are presented as two different service and teaching examples. Abortion services can raise challenges with policies, insurance, scheduling, clinic safety and staff refusals to take care of patients. Patients face their own challenges to seek care, such as stigma, travel, poverty, and intense emotions, and many have experienced domestic violence and sexual assault. Residents and students need to address their personal emotions in addition to learning clinical skills. Providing patient-centered abortion services, particularly for patients who cannot be seen elsewhere, is an issue of equity that makes it highly valuable learning opportunity.

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health servicesequityabortion careabortioncontraceptionpatient educationinsuranceconscientious refusal
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Advancing Women's Health Through Medical Education
A Systems Approach in Family Planning and Abortion
 , pp. 110 - 122
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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