Contraception
Volume 80, Issue 1 , Pages 74-80 , July 2009

First impressions: what are preclinical medical students in the US and Canada learning about sexual and reproductive health?

  • Jody Steinauer

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author.
    • ,
  • Flynn LaRochelle

      Affiliations

    • Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA 94305, USA
    • ,
  • Marta Rowh

      Affiliations

    • University of Pennsylvania MD-PhD Program, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
    • ,
  • Lois Backus

      Affiliations

    • Medical Students for Choice, Philadelphia, PA 19106, USA
    • ,
  • Yarrow Sandahl

      Affiliations

    • Formerly affiliated with Medical Students for Choice, Philadelphia, PA 19106, USA
    • ,
  • Angel Foster

      Affiliations

    • Ibis Reproductive Health, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA

Received 14 February 2008 ,Accepted 31 December 2008.

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☆ Funding for this study was provided by an anonymous foundation.

PII: S0010-7824(09)00049-3

doi: 10.1016/j.contraception.2008.12.015

Contraception
Volume 80, Issue 1 , Pages 74-80 , July 2009

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