RHEDI’s Closure and Next Steps

It is with heavy hearts that we write to share news that the RHEDI organization will be closing at the end of October 2024, due to insufficient funding following the discontinuation of our primary funding source. Thankfully, we have been able to find new homes for some of our key...

Artwork to Celebrate RHEDI’s 20th Anniversary!

This study surveyed directors of US FMRPs accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. Questions on available training aimed to achieve a comprehensive and updated understanding of the availability of abortion training within family medicine residency programs including both routine and optional training and both medication and aspiration...

New Research Examines the Impact of Dobbs on Family Medicine Residency Programs

According to new research published in Annals of Family Medicine, 29 percent of family medicine residency programs are located in states with abortion bans or severe abortion restrictions, limiting the medical education of nearly 4,000 residents each year.

RHEDI Welcomes 3rd Cohort of the Resident Scholars Program for Workforce Diversity

We are thrilled to introduce the nine exceptional residents who make up the third cohort of the Resident Scholars Program for Workforce Diversity (RSPWD). This year-long experience for BIPOC family medicine residents, predominantly those under-represented in medicine (URM), is designed to support scholars’ development as future leaders in the field. Scholars...

Despite a Reprieve in the Mifepristone Case, the Abortion Access Crisis Continues

UPDATE  (April 23, 2023) The Supreme Court’s decision on April 21st preserves, for now, evidence-based access to mifepristone in states that have not banned or severely restricted abortion care. While this is undeniably good news for safe and effective abortion and miscarriage care in many states, the multi-regional access crisis...

RHEDI Welcomes 2nd Cohort of the Resident Scholars Program for Workforce Diversity

We are thrilled to introduce the nine exceptional residents who make up the second cohort of the Resident Scholars Program for Workforce Diversity (RSPWD). This year-long experience for BIPOC family medicine residents, predominantly those under-represented in medicine (URM), is designed to support scholars’ development as future leaders in the field. Scholars will...

Even After Dobbs, Primary Care Providers Can Help Safeguard Abortion

An Op-Ed from RHEDI clinicians and educators in Scientific American

Dobbs Decision is an Assault on Human Rights

We are sickened by the Supreme Court’s rollback of the constitutional protections established by the Roe and Casey decisions. This assault on human rights will specifically criminalize pregnant people and will further restrict the personal autonomy of millions of Americans. We anticipate it will also increase morbidity and mortality associated with pregnancy, especially among...

Virtual Papaya Workshops

Abuse at ICE Facilities

We at RHEDI are livid about reports of coerced and unconsented hysterectomies, in addition to the continued lack of COVID-19 protections, at ICE facilities. Unfortunately, this inhumane treatment and devaluing of non-white bodies is not new. We recognize that medical professionals and the larger institution of medicine are complicit in...