Reproductive health program: outcomes of a unique abortion training program

Abstract

In the US, 88% of counties have no abortion provider. Despite the need for more clinicians to provide safe abortion care, few primary care clinicians receive training. From 1999 to 2005, the Reproductive Health Program (RHP) at the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) offered elective abortion training to medical students, residents, and practicing clinicians, most of whom were primary care physicians and APCs. To our knowledge, this is the first study assessing primary care abortion trainees who have become abortion providers.