Falencki Fellowship in Reproductive Health Advocacy Curriculum
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This one-year fellowship aims to develop leaders who will promote and teach full-spectrum women’s reproductive health care within family medicine. The fellowship is based in New York City. The fellow will participate in the following activities:
- The Fellow will spend one year as a “trainer in training,” learning to perform abortion and related procedures (IUD insertions, first-trimester sonography, medication abortion, endometrial biopsy, and manual vacuum aspiration of the uterus) and learning to teach these procedures to others. Most of this training will take place at Phillips Family Practice. The fellow will also spend 10 to 15 days at a high volume abortion site.
- The fellow will work four patient-care sessions (two days) per week in the Beth Israel Residency Program in Urban Family Practice, seeing continuity care patients and participating in the women’s health procedure session. The fellow will teach residents to perform abortions, IUD insertions, and other procedures in the family medicine setting.
- The fellow will develop teaching skills by precepting family medicine residents one session per week, learning to teach and give feedback under the supervision of the fellowship faculty. As part of the faculty development aspect of the fellowship, the fellow may take on an intern as an advisee, under the supervision of the fellowship director. The fellow will also attend faculty meetings when possible.
- The fellow will develop teaching and leadership skills by giving presentations during the Beth Israel Residency curriculum sessions and at academic family medicine meetings. The fellow will participate in advocacy projects that promote access to reproductive health care in family medicine, with guidance from the Reproductive Health Access Project (RHAP). The fellow, in collaboration with residents and faculty, will work on the on-going projects at the Beth Israel Residency with a goal of preparing presentations for academic meetings and publications for family medicine journals.
- The fellow will work with Medical Students for Choice (MS4C), helping them build their local chapters and engaging residents in doing projects with the medical students. The fellow will connect MS4C students with students who volunteer at New York University (NYU) School of Medicine’s free clinic, promoting the free clinic’s expansion of reproductive health services for uninsured women.
- The fellow will participate in working in and sustaining a free abortion clinic, in collaboration with RHAP staff, NYU medical students, fellowship faculty, and a community advisory board. The fellow will participate in the “reproductive health team” that will perform abortions and provide IUDs for uninsured women. This free clinic will serve as an abortion-training site for students and residents.
Salary is dependent upon experience and the start date is flexible (July-August 2010.)
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Recruitment Criteria
Applicants must be board-certified or board-eligible family physicians who will have completed residency training by July 1, 2010. Recent graduates and mid-career physicians are eligible. Candidates need not be fully trained in women’s health procedures.
High priority will be given to clinicians who:
- Plan to work in an abortion provider shortage area;
- Commit to developing a new abortion-training program at a family medicine residency program that currently offers no abortion training.
For more information, contact: Linda Prine MD by e-mail at: lindaprine@earthlink.net.
