Pro-choice author Rickie Solinger writes:
“97% of family practice residents and 36% of obstetrics and gynecology (OB/GYN) residents have no experience in first-trimester abortion procedures. Indeed, a recent study found that abortion education is limited in medical schools in the United States…
Based on the data available, the authors found that a minority of medical education programs offered abortion education at any level of medical training. Even when clinical experience was offered as part of third-year rotations (45% reported the availability of this experience), participation was low, suggesting to the authors that medical faculty did not encourage student proficiency in this area, and possibly suggesting that students avoided abortion training as a stigmatized, dangerous, or possibly constrained field.”
Rickie Solinger Reproductive Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013) 79
cites:
Eve Espey, Tony Ogburn, Alice Chavez, Clifford Qualls, and Mario Leyba “Abortion Education in Medical Schools: A National Survey” American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 192 (2005) 640 – 643
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