U.S. abortion training.In a 2004 survey of directors of obstetrics and gynecology obstetrics and gynecology Medical and surgical specialty concerned with the management of pregnancy and childbirth and with the health of the female reproductive system. residency programs, 51% of respondents said that their programs routinely provide abortion training (although residents may opt out if they have religious or moral objections), 39% that optional abortion training is available and 10% that their programs do not provide abortion training. (1) Routine training is most common in programs that train seven or more residents a year (71%); those located in New England New England, name applied to the region comprising six states of the NE United States—Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. The region is thought to have been so named by Capt. (62%), the Mid-Atlantic region (76%) or Pacific states The Pacific States form one of the nine geographic divisions within the United States that are officially recognized by that country's census bureau. There are five states in this division — Alaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon, Washington — and, as its name (80%); and those with no religious affiliation (55%). In 85% of programs with routine training, at least half of residents learn to perform first-trimester surgical abortions; in 59%, at least half are trained to provide first-trimester medical abortion medical abortion Obstetrics An elective nonoperative abortion effected in the 1st trimester by abortifacients. See Abortion. . Thirty-six percent of these programs train half or more of residents in second-trimester dilation and evacuation dilation and evacuation n. Abbr. D & E A surgical procedure in which the cervix is dilated and the early products of conception are removed from the uterus. ; 51%, in second-trimester induction. By contrast, only 14-31% of programs that offer abortion training as an option say that at least half of residents learn any of these procedures. Survey respondents represented 73% of U.S. obstetrics and gynecology training programs; in a 1998 survey with a similar response rate, 31% of programs were reported to offer routine abortion training. (1.) Eastwood KL et al., Abortion training in United States obstetrics and gynecology residency programs, Obstetrics & Gynecology, 2006, 108(2): 303-308. FYI "For your information." See digispeak. FYI - For Your Information is compiled and written by Dore Hollander; executive editor of Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health. |
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