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Sunday, October 30th, 2022

OB-GYN Residency Programs Face Tough Choice on Abortion Training

Author:     Jan Hoffman
Source:     The New York Times
Publication Date:     27 October 2022
 Link: OB-GYN Residency Programs Face Tough Choice on Abortion Training
Stephan:   The Republican christofascists are, as this article describes, literally dismantling America's medical training system. And if these MAGAts take over the Congress and various state houses, you are going to see a major debasement of social wellbeing. Sadly, I think the American people are going to vote to destroy themselves.
Dr. Nikki Zite, a professor at a University of Tennessee OB-GYN residency program, worries that top-tier candidates will not apply there because abortions cannot be performed in the state.
Credit: Morgan Hornsby / The New York Times

Many medical residency programs that are educating the next generation of obstetricians and gynecologists are facing a treacherous choice.

If they continue to provide abortion training in states where the procedure is now outlawed, they could be prosecuted. If they don’t offer it, they risk losing their accreditation, which in turn would render their residents ineligible to receive specialty board certification and imperil recruitment of faculty and medical students.

The quandary became clear last month, when the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education formally reaffirmed its longstanding requirement that OB-GYN residency programs make abortion training available.

“You have a legal body, the state, saying abortion is a crime and an accrediting body saying it’s a crucial part of training,” said Mary Ziegler, a law professor at the University of California, Davis, who specializes in the history of abortion. “I can’t think of […]

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1 Comment

  1. Albus Eddie on Monday, October 31, 2022 at 7:39 am

    This is a case of unintended consequences for political decisions. I am sure none of this was on the radar of the legislators of the effected states when the decisions were made. It will be interesting to see how this plays out and and importantly how the voters respond.