Contraception
Volume 81, Issue 6 , Pages 531-536 , June 2010

Future abortion provision among US graduating obstetrics and gynecology residents, 2004

  • Rebecca H. Allen

      Affiliations

    • The Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Women and Infants' Hospital, Brown University, Providence, RI 02905, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. 101 Dudley Street, Providence, RI 02905, USA. Tel.: +1 401 274 1122x2724; fax: +1 401 453 7684.
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  • Christina Raker

      Affiliations

    • The Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Women and Infants' Hospital, Brown University, Providence, RI 02905, USA
    • ,
  • Jody Steinauer

      Affiliations

    • The Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
    • ,
  • Katherine L. Eastwood

      Affiliations

    • The Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Women and Infants' Hospital, Brown University, Providence, RI 02905, USA
    • ,
  • Jennifer E. Kacmar

      Affiliations

    • The Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Women and Infants' Hospital, Brown University, Providence, RI 02905, USA
    • ,
  • Lori A. Boardman

      Affiliations

    • University of Central Florida College of Medicine, Orlando, FL 32816, USA

Received 10 August 2009 ,Revised 13 November 2009 ,Accepted 5 January 2010.

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☆ Presented in part at the Annual Meeting of the Association of Professors of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Council on Residency Education in Obstetrics and Gynecology, Salt Lake City, UT, March 2005.

PII: S0010-7824(10)00002-8

doi: 10.1016/j.contraception.2010.01.001

Contraception
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