Total Credits: 1 including 1 AOA Category 1-A Credit(s)
Objectives:
1. Participants will be able to give an overview of national & statewide trends concerning the provision of sexual and reproductive health care (SRH), including gender affirming care, miscarriage management, and abortion care, since the Dobbs’ decision struck down Roe v Wade;
2. Participants will be able to describe Maine’s 2023 legislative efforts to protect patients and health care providers, and to support access to abortion and gender affirming care;
3. Participants will have an opportunity to discuss why these politics matter to doctors & to our patients, regardless of our personal opinions and medical practices, and be able to brainstorm some action steps to respond to current events.
This session is accredited for a maximum of 1.0 AOA Category 1-A credits. Credits commensurate with participation in the session will be awarded.
*** Please note this program was a part of the MOA 2024 Midwinter Symposium. You will not want to choose this program if you completed this individual program as part of the MOA 2024 Midwinter Symposium. ***
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| MOA Winter 2024 Sexual Reproductive Health_ McDonald. (2.32 MB) | Available after Purchase | ||
Julia McDonald is a full spectrum family medicine physician, an international humanitarian, a published writer, and an outspoken advocate for sexual and reproductive rights. They have worked for Doctors Without Borders since 2021 providing safe abortion care, obstetrical training and care, and newborn resuscitative training around the world. When working in the US, Dr. McDonald teaches at the Maine Dartmouth Family Medicine Residency and is the medical director of abortion services at Mabel Wadsworth Center in Bangor where they also coordinate a statewide abortion training fellowship open to all family medicine residents in Maine and advanced practice clinicians. Their dedication to primary care was recognized by the Maine Academy of Family Physicians when they were honored as Maine’s 2019 Family Physician of the Year and by the Maine Medical Association as the 2023 recipient of the Mary Cushman Exceptional Humanitarian Service award. They are a UNECOM alumna, a graduate of the Greater Lawrence Family Medicine Residency in Massachusettes, a fellow with Physician for Reproductive Health, and, of course, a proud member of the Maine Osteopathic Association.
Dr. McDonald has no actual or potential conflict of interest, financial relationship/arrangement or affiliation with any entity producing, marketing, re-selling or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients.
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