Family planning competency following medical school Ob/Gyn clerkships at faith-based and secular sites.

ABSTRACT: Contraception and abortion topics are variably, but often poorly, addressed in medical school curricula. Restrictions on contraceptive and abortion care at faith-based hospitals may hinder comprehensive family planning training for medical students during Ob/Gyn clerkships. Here we investigated whether medical students at faith-based and non-faith-based clerkships experienced different observations during their Ob/Gyn clerkship and/or differences in self-perceived competency in patient counseling, objective knowledge, and perceived adequacy of training in contraception and abortion topics post-clerkship. A survey was distributed to third- and fourth-year medical students at New York Institute of Technology, College of Osteopathic Medicine. Across all clerkship sites (n = 102 students), obs

SUBMITTER: Feltman RN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10864354 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature