Enhance your knowledge and confidence in caring for the unique sexual, reproductive, and gender-related health care concerns of your patient population. CME & MOC available.
Medication Abortion in 2024: What Internal Medicine Physicians Need to Know
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Video captured from Internal Medicine Meeting 2024. Cynthia Chuang, MD, MSc, FACP, Alexandra Bachorik, MD, EdM, Adelaide McClintock, MD, and Mindy Sobota, MD, MS, Mphil, address prevalence of early abortion and current restrictions that impede equity in access in the United States. They’ll also advise on how internal medicine physicians can serve as a resource to their patients by diagnosing pregnancy, prescribing pills, referring to other trusted clinicians, and/or sharing reliable Internet resources for tele-abortion care.
Complete Contraceptive Toolkit: What’s New in Contraception
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Video captured from Internal Medicine Meeting 2024. Pelin Batur, MD, MSCP, FACP, reviews the newest contraceptives, how they compare to older products, and the rationale for choosing between agents.
Human Trafficking: Identification and Response
Trafficking of humans for sex or labor is a widespread criminal industry reported in all 50 states. Humans are more profitable than drugs or arms, and survivors can be sold repeatedly. This course will supply you with knowledge needed to recognize and respond to survivors in a clinical setting. Expected total time for completion of the reading, video, and interactive content is up to 1 hour.
The 2024 rerelease of ACP's module Human Trafficking: A Physician's Guide to Identification and Response includes updated information and provides an additional learning and credit earning opportunity for learners who claimed credit for earlier versions.
Intimate Partner Violence Program
Addressing IPV–When, Where, and How Matter. Learn practical, evidence-based steps to implement safe and supportive interventions. This two-part, 3 hour program reviews the dynamics and effects of IPV and presents a universal education approach that promotes prevention and improved health and safety outcomes.
Additional Articles
Contraception
This In the Clinic article from Annals provides a foundation to support comprehensive contraceptive counseling by reviewing the different options for contraception and considerations in selection of a method.
Abortion
This Annals article from In the Clinic offers information on patient counseling regarding pregnancy options, as well as the assessment of medical risks of pregnancy in the context of comorbidities, and guidance about what patients should expect if they seek abortion care.
Advocacy Efforts
Organizational Core Values
- Advancing Health Equity: ACP embraces health equity as key strategies for strengthening our organization.
- Women in Medicine: Promoting gender equity and eliminating the inequities in compensation and career advancement.
Advocacy Toolkits
Advocacy in the Courts
Recent ACP policy, positions, and advocacy in support of sexual, reproductive, and gender-related health:
- Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Other Sexual and Gender Minority Health Disparities: A Position Paper From the American College of Physicians (2024)
- ACP Letter to White House in Support of Executive Order on Women's Health Research (2024)
- Joint Letter to Congressional Leaders Urging Opposition to Efforts to Restrict Access to Gender-Affirming Care (2023)
- Reproductive Health Policy in the United States: An ACP Policy Brief (2023)
- Joint Letter Opposing Texas Efforts to Interfere in the Patient-Physician Relationship and Criminalize Gender-Affirming Care (2022)
- ACP Comments on Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Proposed Rule to Update Section 1557 (2022)