Contraception
Volume 81, Issue 6 , Pages 525-530 , June 2010

Obstetrician-gynecologist experiences with abortion training: physician insights from a qualitative study

  • Lori Freedman

      Affiliations

    • ANSIRH, Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health at the University of California, San Francisco, Oakland, CA 94612, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 510 986 8948; fax: +1 510 986 8960.
    • ,
  • Uta Landy

      Affiliations

    • Kenneth J. Ryan Residency Training Program and the Fellowship in Family Planning in the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health at the University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA , USA
    • ,
  • Jody Steinauer

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94612, USA

Received 12 August 2009 ,Revised 11 December 2009 ,Accepted 6 January 2010.

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☆ The research was supported by the Kenneth J. Ryan Residency Program. We have no other funders to disclose.

PII: S0010-7824(10)00004-1

doi: 10.1016/j.contraception.2010.01.003

Contraception
Volume 81, Issue 6 , Pages 525-530 , June 2010

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