Abortion Training Roadmap

Find the resources to become an abortion provider, at any stage of your medical career...

Find the resources to become an abortion provider, at any stage of your medical career...

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If you are interested in getting trained in abortion care, the first step is to check out our list of RHEDI programs, and/or reach out to Medical Students for Choice and the Midwest Access Project. If you have questions about specific programs, or would like some one-on-one advice, please email us at info@rhedi.org

Abortion Training after Dobbs

Following the Dobbs decision, there may be changes to the training opportunities described here, particularly for those living or working in states with abortion bans and restrictions. New laws and policies may impact clinical and even didactic training in those jurisdictions. They may also affect funding, malpractice coverage, and licensure for away electives and other training opportunities.

Please work closely with your residency program to understand any impact this may have on your training plans. You can also consult the following resources to see the current state of abortion regulations and restrictions and to seek out individualized legal, regulatory, and digital security advice:

Legal/Regulatory Assistance

Policy Trackers

Digital Security Assistance

About the Abortion Training Roadmap

This page provides an overview of abortion training resources and opportunities at every step of the journey to becoming a physician. Though not exhaustive, it consolidates resources that facilitate access to abortion training at your college, medical school, residency program, or workplace.

It is based on a website created by Dr. Roshni Kakaiya, who at the time of its creation was a family medicine resident passionate about abortion training. It is meant to encourage and support others who have similar interests and are looking for guidance and resources. This project was completed with support from the American Academy of Family Physicians Foundation through its FM Leads – Emerging Leader Institute program. We at RHEDI are grateful to have worked with Dr. Kakaiya to provide ongoing support for this resource.  We congratulate her on winning the Best Leadership Project Award in her Class of 2020 American Academy of Family Physicians Emerging Leaders Institute cohort for the Abortion Training Roadmap.

RJ Organizations

The Afiya Center uses the reproductive justice framework to bring awareness to the connections between reproductive oppression and the increased transmission of HIV to women of color….
BMMA provides technical assistance, training, and capacity building for grassroots organizations, maternity care service providers, academia, and the public health industry….
Black Women’s Blueprint is a survivor-founded movement to place black women’s lives and concerns within the political, civil and human rights concerns….
After nearly 40 years as CLPP, a program of Hampshire College, we are moving into the next phase of our existence as Collective Power for Reproductive Justice, a national movement-building organization centering reproductive justice. Reproductive justice, a term coined by Black women in 1994, expands the conversation around abortion rights to include the impacts of racism and other intersecting oppressions. Our new name was literally born through the collective input and power of our community, of each of you. Collective Power is an intersectional, intuitive organic coming together of different voices, ideas, and disciplines. Together, we’ll always be working to push the growth edge, to center those most affected by reproductive oppression — to create space for new and radical thought….
Elephant Circle provides coaching, consulting, network building and accessible educational materials in their approach to birth justice. …
EverThrive works to ensure that communities most impacted by injustice in Illinois have the access, resources, health care, and choice to create and sustain healthy families on their own terms. …
Forward Together uses an intersectional approach in their fight to dismantle culture and policy that marginalizes people based on race, sexuality and gender….
For the first time since the civil rights movement there is a national reckoning around race in America. The More Up Campus seeks to participate in this reckoning by finding creative ways to honor the voiceless, the minimized, the ignored. The erection of the “Mothers of Gynecology” monument honors the sacrifice of Anarcha, Lucy, and Betsey, the enslaved experimental subjects of the so-called “father of gynecology,” J. Marion Sims. More Up is located in Montgomery, Alabama, and the “Mothers of Gynecology” monument stands not far from where Sims’s dastardly experiments were conducted. Drawing on a comprehensive re-examination of Sims’s career, and never-before-seen archival documents that reveal the lives and fates of Anarcha, Lucy, and Betsey, the “Mothers of Gynecology” acts as a first step toward teaching and reimagining the true story of the nation, facing the injustice of the past and honoring the courage of overlooked heroes….
MOTHER Lab uses research, advocacy, and mentorship to address and eradicate inequities facing Black women….
The National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice grounds its work at the intersection of reproductive health and rights, im/migrant rights, Latino civil rights and liberties, and economic justice….
New Voices for Reproductive Justice uses community organizing, leadership development, and voter engagement to help dismantle patriarchal anti-Blackness. …
SisterReach is a grassroots 501(c)3 nonprofit that supports the reproductive autonomy of women and teens of color, poor and rural women, LGBTQIA+ people and their families….
SisterSong works to build an effective network of individuals and organizations to improve institutional policies and systems that impact the reproductive lives of marginalized communities….
Take Root – Red State Reproductive Justice hosts an annual conference that creates a foundational space for red state connections and organizing. Hosting a conference with a reproductive justice framework helps us see the connection between poverty and food access in rural and urban communities, histories of coercive sterilization of people of color, the disparity in impacts of the criminalization of drugs and its effects on families, gender self-determination and gender violence, access to contraception, trans health, and medical consent information….
The Doula Project provides emotional, physical and informational support to people across the spectrum of pregnancy at no cost to them. …

Conferences

The International Indigenous Women’s Health Meeting, held every two years, focuses on innovative clinical care models and community‐based public health approaches for women and their families of Indigenous People of North America. During the…
Note: Submission Deadline is November 10, 2023
Conference Begins:
March 13, 2024
Conference Ends:
March 15, 2024
Season: Spring

AAFP Leadership Summit

Join a nationwide community of residency program leaders—program directors, faculty, and administrators—at the upcoming Residency Leadership Summit. At this year’s LIVE event, we’re offering actionable, inspiring ideas; key program updates; and vital networking opportunities…
Conference Begins:
March 25, 2024
Conference Ends:
March 27, 2024
Season: Spring
Join us for three invigorating days where you’ll have the opportunity to meet with hundreds of residency programs, network with your peers, listen to inspiring speakers, and engage in one-of-a-kind experiences….
Conference Begins:
August 1, 2024
Conference Ends:
August 3, 2024
Season: Summer
Brings together leading health professionals to examine and discuss skill development, best practices in patient care, and the most up-to-date clinical content for obstetricians and gynecologists….
Note: The call for submissions is now closed.
Conference Begins:
May 17, 2024
Conference Ends:
May 19, 2024
Season: Spring
Once a year, medical students, physicians and innovators from around the globe convene for a single purpose: to empower future physicians to become leaders — ushers of a more equitable realm of medicine. This…
Conference Begins:
May 30, 2024
Conference Ends:
June 1, 2024
Season: Summer
BMMA’s bi-annual Black Maternal Health Conference and Training Institute (BMHC24) is the official and premiere assembly for Black women, clinicians, professionals, advocates, and all other stakeholders working to improve maternal, sexual, and reproductive health…
Conference Begins:
September 12, 2024
Conference Ends:
September 14, 2024
Season: Spring
The Collective Power Conference is a high energy, national reproductive justice event. An activist launching pad. Leadership training weekend. Movement building, networking and strategy forum. For more than 30 years, our conference has gathered…
Conference Begins:
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Conference Ends:
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Season: Spring
This conference will provide an opportunity for obstetricians, gynecologists, doulas, midwives, and medical practitioners to learn how to change the narrative in race in healthcare disparities. Keynote speaker Dr. Sharon Malone has historic roots…
Conference Begins:
February 27, 2024
Conference Ends:
March 1, 2024
Season: Winter
This annual conference is a centerpiece of the Family Medicine Midwest Foundation. This three-day event attracts faculty, resident and medical students from Midwest states to attract and inspire medical students to choose Midwest Family…
Conference Begins:
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Conference Ends:
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Season: Fall
The 2024 Annual Meeting will be September 19-21, 2024, in Philadelphia, PA at the Philadelphia Marriott Hotel. Program proposal, award submission and registration deadlines for the FMEC 2024 Annual Meeting will be announced in…
Conference Begins:
September 19, 2024
Conference Ends:
September 21, 2024
Season: Fall
The Family Medicine Experience (FMX), the American Academy of Family Physicians’ (AAFP) largest annual meeting, provides five days of education, networking, inspiration, and patient-centered solutions for thousands of family physicians. Since 1949, this annual…
Conference Begins:
September 24, 2024
Conference Ends:
September 28, 2024
Season: Fall

LMSA National Conference

This event represents the latest product of a grassroots, student-driven movement that begins in the 1960’s, aimed at improving healthcare for underserved communities in the United States. To better foster the development of trainees…
Conference Begins:
August 14, 2024
Conference Ends:
August 17, 2024
Season: Fall
This year’s theme, “Un paso más: sin barreras y sin límites,” aims to celebrate groundbreaking Latino achievement and scholarship in medicine and policy. Join us in taking the next steps necessary to improve access…
Conference Begins:
March 1, 2024
Conference Ends:
March 3, 2024
Season: Spring
This year’s virtual conference will focus on a theme of Physicians as Advocates: Liberating Abortion Through Training and Education and will feature pre-conference workshops including Values Clarification, Organizing 101 and Curriculum Reform, as well…
Conference Begins:
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Conference Ends:
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Season: Winter
NAPCRG’s Annual Meeting is a forum for primary care researchers from across the globe to gather and present their research, collaborate for new research and foster growth for up-and-coming researchers….
Conference Begins:
November 20, 2024
Conference Ends:
November 24, 2024
Season: Fall
NAF’s Annual Meeting is the primary venue for presentation of the latest research, innovations, and policies that affect abortion care provision around the world. The meeting includes specialized seminars and clinical workshops, as well…
Note: For security, location and exact dates disclosed only to registered attendees.
Conference Begins:
TBA
Conference Ends:
TBA
Season: Spring
Boldly spotlights the connections between sex, sexuality, and the reproductive health and rights of our families and communities. Opens up conversations about sex, sexuality, bodily autonomy and so much more….
Conference Begins:
TBA
Conference Ends:
TBA
Season: Summer
Join other scholars, clinicians, and partners united by a shared interest to advance science that will lead to just and equitable abortion and contraception….
Conference Begins:
October 19, 2024
Conference Ends:
October 21, 2024
Season: Fall
Networking forum for family medicine educators. More than 400 educational and interactive workshops, seminars, lecture-discussions, papers, hot-topic special sessions, and poster presentations….
Note: The call for submissions is now closed.
Conference Begins:
May 4, 2024
Conference Ends:
May 8, 2024
Season: Spring
Acquire skills and resources to educate and empower your medical students to become competent, compassionate, collaborative, and creative physicians to address the health needs of our communities. Network with family medicine educators, coordinators, administrators,…
Note: The call for submissions is now closed.
Conference Begins:
February 8, 2024
Conference Ends:
February 11, 2024
Season: Winter
The Take Root – Red State Reproductive Justice Conference continues to create a foundational space for red state connections and organizing. As we enter Take Root’s thirteenth year, we find ourselves in a crucial…
Conference Begins:
TBA
Conference Ends:
TBA
Season: Fall

SRH Organizations

Abortion Coalition for Telemedicine Access (ACT Access) strives to make timely, affordable telemedicine abortion available from licensed providers to people anywhere in the United States….
A consortium of abortion clinics committed to providing opportunities for clinicians to learn abortion care in small group clinical settings….