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.

By the end of reviewing this session, learners should be able to: 

  1. Describe prevalence of early abortion and current restrictions that impede equity in access in the United States.  
  2. List how internal medicine physicians can serve as a resource to their patients by prescribing abortion pills, referring to other trusted clinicians, and/or sharing reliable Internet resources for tele-abortion care.  
  3. Identify counseling options when diagnosing pregnancy  
  4. List steps to safely prescribe medication abortion, including understanding safety and effectiveness, ruling out contraindications, recognizing very rare complications, and following up to ensure abortion is complete.  

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