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The education medical students receive should not be limited by where they attend school. MSFC student leaders utilize their organizing power to increase access to reproductive health care and become …

Sara Sotiraks, Ciara Black, Sara Bocchinfuso, and Madeline Chidiac of Trinity College Dublin developed a student survey that could potentially identify gaps or inconsistencies in family planning curricula and teaching …

It’s official. The Supreme Court of the United States has overturned Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. We are as outraged and heartbroken as you are. While we …

What made you want to start a regional website on abortion access?  The University of Washington School of Medicine has 6 campuses across the 5 state region, Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, …

This unique educational opportunity offers medical students the opportunity to learn about abortion from family planning experts in a small group virtual environment using independent learning, interactive lectures and sessions, …

This session on providing safe abortion in rural and low-resource settings explores service delivery bottlenecks and discusses ways to expand access to safe abortion by highlighting innovative success stories enabling …

As in 2020, in 2021 the COVID-19 restrictions continued to negatively impact MSFC’s capacity to administer the Abortion Training Funding Programs—the Reproductive Health Externship (RHE) for medical students and the …

Many of the recent abortion restrictions limit access to abortion training and education, making MSFC’s work more essential than ever. MSFC is working to create well-trained, empathetic physicians who can …

First published in September 8, 2016.  As a first year medical student, I let my doubts get in the way of my education. I was intrigued by the idea of …