Abortion

[Geronimo]

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This is not meant to start a war /discussion 😡 over the morality, etc... of abortion. I did a short 10 minute search on this forum and haven't found the answer to my question, so I thought I would ask it here.

Is/was abortion covered at any point during you med school experience? Did you have to perform any? If so, were you able to opt out based on religious beliefs?

 

[T.A.M]

I suppose you are referring to elective abortions. We covered the topic in the last 10 minutes of a lecture during our Reproductive section, and about 5 minutes of that time focused on how to recognize complications. Unless you want to specialize in the field, you will never have to perform an elective abortion. It's not even a part of OB/GYN residency training, and most hospitals don't offer the procedure. There was an initiative in California a few ago to mandate all physicians licensed in the state and medical students should undergo training in elective abortions, but I'm pretty sure it didn't go anywhere.

 

[babyruth]

We talked about it briefly during endocrine/pharm and will probably talk about it during human repro. Most importantly we talked about it during ethics and it was quite interesting. I know that as a student you can do rotations through Planned parenthood and certain doctors affiliated with them, which included FP docs (not just Ob/gyns).

I do think it is important to be taught, all religious/ideological biases aside, in order to, most importantly, handle a complication during pregnancy.

 

[DrMom]

Closing since this is a duplicate thread & posting in more than one forum is a TOS violation. Feel free to contribute to the open one in the Allo forum.