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Patient-Centered Abortion Care Education Curriculum

Overview

ACOG has collaborated with CREOG, Innovating Education in Reproductive Health, and the Kenneth J. Ryan Residency Training Program in Abortion and Family Planning to launch an abortion care essentials curriculum available to all obstetrics and gynecology residents and residency programs across the United States.

The comprehensive, web-based PACE curriculum focuses on the essentials of abortion care education, including medical knowledge, technical skills, and evidence-based counseling and practices. PACE, which is housed within the Innovating Education in Reproductive Health learning platform, includes four self-paced modules that encompass seven total hours of content and interactive videos with leading educators in family planning. Content is presented in four areas:

  • General principles of abortion care in its multiple contexts

  • Best practices in nonjudgmental, patient-centered pregnancy options and abortion counseling

  • Provision of safe, high-quality abortion care

  • Patient-centered early pregnancy loss care

The four modules are followed by a low-fidelity simulation to give learners hands-on representative experience in an abortion procedure. PACE also has the embedded capability to track learners’ progress and assessment tools for medical knowledge, including pre- and post-evaluations.

This program is available without charge to all Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education-accredited residency programs in obstetrics and gynecology.

Enrolling Your Residents in PACE

To enroll obstetrics and gynecology residents in the PACE curriculum, please follow these easy steps:

  1. Visit https://www.innovating-education.org/
  2. Click ‘Log In’ on the right hand corner
  3. It will prompt you to register if you do not have an account or cannot remember your password
  4. Once registered – log in and go to your ‘dashboard’ at the top of the screen
  5. On the dashboard page, you’ll see ‘Templates’ on the left hand side
  6. Click Templates and scroll down to ‘Patient Centered Abortion Care Education Curriculum’
  7. Click ‘copy’
  8. Once the course is copied, go back to your dashboard and click ‘courses’
  9. You will then see the PACE course listed under your courses
  10. On the right hand side of the course you will ‘Actions’ as an option – if you click ‘invite’ you will then be able to either upload a spreadsheet with contact info for your residents or add their emails individually

They will then get an invitation to register and take the course.

If you have questions, please contact the CREOG team by using the CREOG contact form and selecting “PACE Curriculum” from the dropdown.