Abstract
It is essential that physicians who take care of adolescents, whether in specialty practice or primary care, learn to routinely address adolescent sexuality and reproductive health care. According to our most recent Youth Risk Behavior Survey, 64.1% of 12th graders have had sexual intercourse ≥1 time, and 49.3% of 12th graders have had sexual intercourse with at least ≥1 person in the last 3 months. Unfortunately, only 53% of those 12th graders had used a condom during their last sexual encounter, and only 32.2% of those 12th graders had used a birth control pill, intrauterine device, implant, shot, patch, or ring during their last sexual encounter.1 Despite these high levels of sexual activity and unprotected sex, we have not yet reached the point where all providers of primary … Address correspondence to Erica J. Gibson, MD, University of Vermont, Department of Pediatrics, 1 South Prospect Street, 3rd Floor, Burlington, VT 05401. E-mail: erica.gibson{at}uvmhealth.org
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