These textbooks, publications, and additional resources are not stand-alone curricula but serve to expand and enhance abortion training experiences. Ideally the context in which to address abortion education is in the broader scope of comprehensive reproductive health education and services. The resources listed here are specifically geared towards abortion training. Some of our collaborating organizations also produce resources focused on other reproductive health issues .
Many of the National Abortion Federation's resources were developed with both current and future providers in mind. Among NAF's resources are the Clinical Training Curriculum in Abortion Practice, 2nd Edition; the NAF Textbook, Managment of Unintended and Abnormal Pregnancy: Comprehensive Abortion Care; Medical Abortion Curriculum Resources, and the Clinical Policy Guidelines. Order now
Abortion Practice, by Warren Hern, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D - This practical resource covers abortion counseling, patient management, staffing and staff attitudes, operative procedures and techniques, prevention and management of complications, legal and administrative aspects of abortion practice, and community relations. There is also a step-by-step explanation of operative outpatient abortion techniques through the second trimester, specific data on preoperative and postoperative diagnosis of fetal age, information on prevention of long-term adverse sequelae of abortion, and sample forms detailing data needed for patient records and care.
Surgical Abortion, by Eugene Glick, M.D., M.P.H. - This instructive text on first- and second-trimester surgical abortion contains concise and practical information including charting and counseling, anesthesia, and surgical technique from a noted expert in abortion. It is a valuable resource for skilled abortion providers and trainees alike. Order
Ipas
Ipas has worked for three decades to increase women's ability to exercise their sexual and reproductive rights and to reduce deaths and injuries of women from unsafe abortion. Ipas' global and country programs include training, research, advocacy, distribution of equipment and supplies for reproductive health care, and information dissemination. Visit the Ipas website for an extensive listing of resources, publications, and training materials about manual vacuum aspiration (MVA).
Resource Guide for International Preservice Medical Education
This Resource Guide, originally produced by the Reproductive Health Initiative and now held by the Association of Reproductive Health Professionals, is a catalog of 164 reproductive health training materials that can be adapted for use within preservice training. The Resource Guide is useful in developing reproductive health curricula for preservice medical education; supplementing existing reproductive health content; evaluating reproductive health content covered at medical education institutions; and identifying appropriate resources for inservice training.
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