11. BECOMING A TRAINER
Updated June 2022 by Lara Crystal-Ornelas MD, Vanessa Ramirez MD, Aisha Wagner MD
This chapter is designed to help you train new clinicians in early abortion care and management of early pregnancy loss (EPL). It presents techniques that prepare learners for abortion provision, integrate training into the clinical setting, build and maintain efficiency. It considers power dynamics at play when training and providing care to those traditionally marginalized in healthcare settings. It also strategizes techniques for training partial participants and / or opt-out learners.
CHAPTER LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Following completion of this chapter, you should be able to:
- Balance training of new providers with patient-centered care, safety, and clinic flow
- Teach and apply the tenets of reproductive justice to all aspects of training
- Ask trainees for self-assessment and provide them with useful feedback, with special consideration to the power dynamics at play
- Assess trainee competence rooted in objective measures and free of bias
- Respond appropriately to difficult training situations
VIDEOS
https://vimeo.com/162456765
- Planning a Career Workshop (IERH)
READINGS / RESOURCES
- Advancing Equity & Justice in Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare (Structures & Self Series; IERH): https://bit.ly/3dT2Xgw
- Conscientious refusal in reproductive medicine (Lupi 2009)
- Clinic flow strategies for training clinics (TEACH)
- Addressing the Use and Abuse of Power in Medical Training (Angoff 2016)
- Killing the Black Body by Dorothy Roberts
- Medical Apartheid by Harriet A. Washington
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