9. BECOMING A PROVIDER, ADVOCATE AND LEADER

^{Updated 2022 by Monica Agarwal, MD, Sheila Attaie, DO, and Anna Sliwowska, MD}

This chapter is designed to aid clinicians who desire to gain additional training and become an abortion provider in their post-training practice. It offers an overview of training and practice opportunities in clinical and advocacy work, leadership development, interviewing strategies, next steps, and mechanisms for ongoing support.

CHAPTER LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Following completion of this chapter, you should be better able to:

• Identify training, post-training, and fellowship opportunities to build and maintain your skills as well as expand access to reproductive health services
• Reflect on your personal identities and considerations relevant to becoming an abortion provider
• Center and uplift training opportunities, networking, mentorship, and support for providers of racial, ethnic, and gender-diverse backgrounds
• Consider avenues for experience in reproductive health, rights and justice advocacy

READINGS / RESOURCES

• Innovating Education in Reproductive Health (IERH)
  • Advancing Health Equity
• Center for Reproductive Rights – https://reproductiverights.org/
• SisterSong Women of Color for Reproductive Justice
• Snapshots: Success stories from providers who have incorporated abortion services in ways that have worked for them (IERH)
• Paul et al (eds). Management of Unintended and Abnormal Pregnancy: Comprehensive Abortion Care (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009)
  • Appendix: Resources for Abortion Providers
• Related Chapter Content:
  • Supplemental Chapter: Becoming a Trainer
  • Supplemental Chapter: Practice Integration