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The University of Washington, School of Medicine (UWSOM) in Seattle recently hosted a completely virtual IUD workshop with 50 students and 10+ physician leaders participating. Our workshop was geared primarily towards MS1 and MS2 pre-clinical students with the goal of increasing their competency and knowledge in the field of reproductive healthcare and justice. We were inspired to host this workshop to increase medical literacy ...
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February 22, 2018
Testifying Against Anti-Choice Legislation as a Medical StudentBy Maya Nojechowicz, MSFC Student Organizer Parvaneh (“Pari”) Nouri, an MD/MPH candidate at Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine, has testified three times against anti-abortion bills in the Republican controlled Ohio state legislature, and she’s gearing up for a fourth – a D & E ban has been introduced. In a hostile state like …

February 7, 2018
The Promise of SB320: How California Could Revolutionize College Students’ Access to Reproductive ServicesBy Isabel Beshar, MSFC Student Leader Stanford University School of Medicine It took over 25 minutes, but it was worth it. On January 9th, during a hearing of the Education Committee for California’s State Senate, over 60 college and medical students – including myself and other members from Medical Students for Choice chapters across the …

January 10, 2018
Collaborating with MSFC and Alumni to Expand LARC AccessJessica Grossman, MD, CEO of Medicines360 I’ve been an advocate for women’s health and choice for more than 20 years. In my role as CEO of Medicines360, a global non-profit women’s health pharmaceutical company, I’ve had the opportunity to speak with clinicians on a range of family planning topics. I visited the Medical Students for …

November 8, 2017
Curriculum Reform at Univ. of Missouri – Kansas CityAnnaMaria Maples, MS6 at UMKC Missouri has never been known for being progressive, but I did not know quite the extent of it until I began preparing for residency. I am a sixth year medical student at the University of Missouri – Kansas City School of Medicine (UMKC) in the BA/MD program, and our curriculum …

October 23, 2017
A First Step in Physician AdvocacyMireya Paz Taboada, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine I don’t think being pro-choice was ever a conscious decision that I made – it is just what makes sense to me as a woman and as someone who wants to provide quality medical care to her fellow human beings. But when I knew I would …

October 4, 2017
Advocacy Training and Medical Education: The CoFPBy Armide Storey, M2, Boston University School of Medicine As a medical student, it is easy to get bogged down in the every day. And it is easy, sometimes, to forget why I chose to become a doctor. For this I am most thankful for MSFC and the Conference on Family Planning. To be surrounded by peers who …

September 28, 2017
Our Experience with the Reproductive Health Externship in Accra, GhanaBy Frank Kiwango, Sweetness Laizer & Yasson Mwakibinga Sexual and reproductive health is a disputed topic in Africa due to cultural diversity and religion. Before embarking on this externship the three of us, Frank Kiwango, Sweetness Laizer, and Yasson Mwakibinga, fifth year medical students at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical University, had different ideologies and mentalities on what …

September 1, 2017
Abortion: When Politics Meets PracticeBy Alana Cartens For most of my life I have danced around the sidelines of the reproductive justice movement, always supporting, but more actively involved in work around racial justice and international human rights. Attending the Medical Students for Choice Conference on Family Planning last December shifted my focus to see how, in many ways, …

August 21, 2017
“Our Bodies Our Doctors” Features MSFC AlumniBy Andrea Chiavarini, MD As an Ob/Gyn and abortion provider in Portland, Wichita, and Oklahoma City, I share my personal story and how my experience as an MSFC member led me to my current practice in a new documentary looking at the lives of abortion providers, featuring a number of MSFC alumni physicians and long-time …