Abortion care: Ensuring excellence, promoting wellbeing and improving training

This webinar will provide information about undergraduate and postgraduate training, safeguarding women, and update abortion care providers on approaches to care for clinicians as well as service users.

Speakers include Dr Zaid Al-Najjar, Medical Director at NHS Practitioner Health and General Practitioner (UK), Dr Jayne Kavanagh, Associate Clinical Professor in Medical Education (UK), Dr Laura MacIsaac, Professor and Associate Director of Fellowship in Complex Family Planning (USA), and Dr Rebecca McKay, Consultant in Obstetrics & Gynaecology and FSRH Abortion Module Guardian (UK).

Abortion care has been evolving rapidly in recent years and this webinar will address the importance of training and best practice to formalise this at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

Participants will also learn about how to ensure self-care and care of colleagues.

This is a joint webinar between the RSM Sexuality and Sexual Health Section and the British Society of Abortion Care Providers (BSACP).

During this webinar attendees will learn about: 

• The new Special Skills Module (SSM) in Abortion Care
• Effective approaches to undergraduate teaching
• The new UK Service Specifications for Abortion Care
• The value of the clinician and service user relationship
• The importance of safeguarding
• Prudent use of ultrasound in abortion care

Registration for this webinar will close 2 hours prior to the start time. You will receive the webinar link 2 hours before the meeting.

Call for abstracts for Free Communications

Submission Deadline: 11:59pm on Thursday 2 September 2021

BSACP invites conference participants to submit an abstract. A selection will be chosen to give 10-minute oral presentations (in either the morning or afternoon session), with a prize awarded for the best presentation in each session.

All submissions on topics related to abortion care will be considered. The conference organisers encourage submissions related to real-life, quality improvement initiatives (clinical research, service development or audit that aim to improve care in the following areas: patient experience and outcomes, staff wellbeing, patient engagement in service design). Projects should have been carried out within the last 3 years.

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To submit an abstract click here. 

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