For many U.S. medical school students and residents who want to learn about abortions, options are scarce.
The first two procedures are part of standard physician education. But for many U.S. medical school students and residents who want to learn about abortions, options are scarce.
Peake, 32, said if he wanted to learn to do colonoscopies, for example, he could work with school staff to shadow a doctor doing research or working in a clinic. "It was kind of a joke in my family: If people tell me I can't do something, I'm going to do it twice as hard," she said. "I kind of feel this moral, righteous drive to go for it."U.S. physician education typically includes four years of medical school, where students learn the basics of general medicine and hands-on patient care. They graduate with a medical degree that officially makes them doctors.
"Abortion is one of the most common medical procedures," they wrote. "Yet abortion-related topics are glaringly absent from medical school curricula." Jain, 23, said her first experience observing an abortion was "anti-climactic," far from the scary image she'd heard opponents describe.At that moment, she knew she wanted to provide abortions. "It was like a snap of finger. That kind of changed it for me," said Jain, who is studying public policy at Harvard while on leave from medical school at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
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