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AMSA Abortion Care & Reproductive Justice Institutes


The AMSA Abortion Care & Reproductive Justice Institutes
2024 – 2025

AMSA Abortion Care & Reproductive Justice Institutes are deisgned to engage small groups of U.S. based medical students in thought-provoking, dynamic conversations, as well as issue education, and hands-on clinical skill-building, with key experts working in abortion care, reproductive health and education, research, or reproductive and social justice. AMSA will be hosting a number of Institutes during 2024-2025.

Successful applicants will receive stipend reimbursements to cover their travel expenses.
All meals, on-site training supplies, and transportation to the retreat location are provided at no cost.

Add Your Name to the the Waiting List Today!

Those on the waiting list will receive notification prior to opening the application to general membership.

AMSA Abortion Care & Reproductive Justice Institutes will be held in private retreat-like settings nestled in nature yet easily accessible locations. The Institutes are designed to provide deep dive opportunities to build knowledge, skills, and connections in a supportive, nurturing and Love-centered community, with a focus on finding and connecting with joy as we work on challenging issues facing our communities and future practice as physicians. Learning opportunities will include a clinical skill-building MVA “papaya” workshop and values-clarification training, along with:
  • effective messaging communications,
  • networking and advocacy training,
  • building power and your circles of influence,
  • identifying and engaging reproductive freedom champions in your state, and
  • values-based research and using data to make change.

Please complete this short form to add your name to the priority waiting list for our next Institutes. 

The program begins on Thursday evening with a group dinner and ends after breakfast on Sunday morning.  In addition to didactic and clinical workshop-style learning, there will be ample time for informal conversations, delicious meals and snacks, walking in the woods, star-gazing, and relaxing in the hot-tubs and around the fire. Each participant will have their own bedroom, some bathrooms will be shared. Meals are prepared together along with clean-up. 

Institute participants will receive a variety of take-home resources and assistance to organize 1 or more local events. Local events could include, but are not limited to: clinical skills-building, networking and advocacy training, issue education, understanding state reproductive health policies, and values-based messaging and research.

Add Your Name to the the Waiting List Today!

AMSA Reproductive Health Mentorship Sprints


AMSA’s Reproductive Health Mentorship Sprint is designed to pair interested mentors and mentees for a structured 4-week mentorship experience to discuss topics like:

  • Reproductive Justice
  • Gender and racial justice in sexual/reproductive healthcare and primary care
  • Preparing for residency and ensuring access to training in family planning and abortion care
  • Career opportunities for clinical practice focused on family planning, abortion care, and primary care
  • The effects of public policy on reproductive health clinical care
  • Work-life balance as physician, addressing moral injury, and mitigating risk of personal harm as an abortion provider
  • Health advocacy as a physician-activist
  • Research interests in reproductive health(care), rights, and justice

Eligible applicants (current medical students) will be paired by their indication of interest in the above topics and a few other factors. We’ll match you with a mentor/mentee with similar interests, and we’ll provide resources to guide you through four mentoring sessions, one per week as explained further below. 

Winter 2025 Sprint Applications Now OPEN – Apply by Monday, January 6, 2025

Skill-building, Issue Education & Action Opportunities for AMSA Chapters & Members


The AMSA Reproductive Health Project offer an abundance of support to you, your AMSA chapter, your school, and your community with informational resources, connections to subject matter experts and activists for chapter events, and advocacy skills workshops.

Small chapter grants ($200 – $500) are available to cover food/beverage costs for AMSA Chapter events planned in coordination with the AMSA RHP! We can even help chapters with new member recruitment by providing AMSA RHP swag for tabling events and a limited number of free memberships for students who participate in RHP-sponsored chapter events!

Issue Education Teach-In Topics Include:

  • The History of Abortion: Roots of Stigma, Opportunities for Change
  • Abortion as a Moral & Social Good: The Ethical Basis for Conscientious Provision of Abortion Care
  • Religious & Spiritual Affirmation of Abortion
  • Men & Abortion – Feminist Frameworks for Male/Masc Abortion Rights Allies
  • Fetal Personhood & Criminalizing Pregnancy: Fast Tracks to Gilead
  • Physicians as Enforcers: Urine Drug Screens, Mandated Reporting & Criminalization of Pregnant People
  • Anti-abortion Laws & Maternal Mortality: Turning the Tide
  • Birth Justice – A Framework for Improving U.S. Health Outcomes by Uniting Physicians, Midwives & Doulas 
  • Reproductive Justice: A Movement & Framework for Equitable Health Care

To learn more & arrange a customized, no cost teach-in complete thisInterest Form 

  • Effective Communication about Abortion Care: What & How We Talk Matters
  • Lifting Your Voice: Writing Compelling LTEs,OpEds & Blog Posts
  • Building Relationships with Reproductive Freedom Champions in Your State
  • Understanding How Bills Become Laws & Regulations Govern Physician Practice
  • Translating Data & Research Findings into Policy Recommendations
  • Finding & Sharing Change-maker Stories in Your Community

To learn more & arrange a customized, no cost teach-in complete thisInterest Form 

Fifteen scholarships are available to U.S. premedical and medical students who are AMSA members to present posters on topics related to abortion care, reproductive health research, sexual/reproductive health (SRH) education and training experiences, Reproductive Justice advocacy, etc. during the in-person Poster Session at the upcoming AMSA annual meeting, Future Physicians for Change Convention, April 17 – 20, 2025 in Washington, D.C..

All project posters presented must have a US focus or context.
Scholarships will cover conference registration as well as provide up to $600 in reimbursements for travel and hotel expenses.
SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION DEADLINE –  Sunday, February 16, 2025 at 11:59pmPT

Apply Here for Your Repro Poster Presenter Scholarship Today!

OTHER IMPORTANT DATES

  • Submit your Poster Abstract by Saturday, February 15, 2025 at 11:59pmPT
  • Selected scholarship applicants will be notified on a rolling basis and no later than Friday, February 21, 2025
  • In-person Poster Session at FP4C2025 – Saturday, April 19, 2025

For more information email Dr. Jeff Koetje at jkoetje@amsa.org or Dr. Aliye Runyan at arunyan@amsa.org

Stay tuned for details coming soon!

AMSA Academy Reproductive Health Offerings


The AMSA Abortion Care & Reproductive Health Project addresses the “hidden curriculum” in medical school, prepares students to think critically about abortion-related education and training opportunities, and provides students with issue education, advocacy training, and hands-on skill building sessions via AMSA Academy Scholars Programs and the AMSA Elective in Abortion Care, Family Planning & Reproductive Justice. Scroll down to learn more!

AMSA Reproductive Health Scholars Program
Fall 2024 – Now Closed

AMSA strives to empower physicians-in-training to effect change through education and advocacy. AMSA Scholars Programs are designed to provide medical and premed students with information not covered in traditional medical school curriculum and to foster an online learning community of future physicians.

The AMSA Reproductive Health Scholars Program addresses the “hidden curriculum” in medical school and prepare students to think critically about abortion-related and education and training opportunities. At the end of the program, participants develop a project utilizing the knowledge gained from the course. The projects are an application of their new skills, as well as a professional development opportunity in the participant’s school or community. Throughout the experience, participants gain valuable mentorship from their Course Directors, fellow Scholars, and partner organizations to enhance their projects.

Topics this program addresses:

  • Diversity & Equity in Abortion Access & Our Healthcare Workforce
  • Basic Clinical Overview of First & Second Trimester Abortion
  • Protecting Reproductive Health: State & Federal Laws that Impact Access & Care
  • Reproductive Justice: Framework & Advocacy
  • Options Counseling & Values Clarification in Reproductive Care
  • Birth Settings in America: Outcomes, Quality, Access, & Choice
  • When Routine Training is Unethical & Becomes Illegal: The Case of Intimate Exams for Teaching Purposes

For more information please email rhp@amsa.org

Note: Students attending an international medical schools who are either U.S. citizens or intend to practice in the US may register with the understanding our program focus is on U.S. abortion policy and practice and is not designed to address policy or practice outside the U.S.

AMSA Elective in Abortion Care, Family Planning & Reproductive Justice (non-clinical)

FALL 2024 & WINTER 2025
1 credit P/F Electives – Seats Limited

Registration is Now Closed 

A virtual, credit-bearing elective for US and international medical students (all years), residents, fellows, and graduate public health students who are passionately interested in developing and deepening their knowledge and skills in abortion care, family planning, and reproductive justice.
All sessions are held from 1:00pm – 3:00pm ET via Zoom
No in-person components, this elective is conducted fully online, and may be taken for credit, or audited (not for credit).

Program Description:

Developed in partnership between the AMSA Reproductive Health Project and the RJ Med Ed Project of the University of Michigan Medical School, this virtual elective for U.S. and international medical students (in particular, medical students pursuing family medicine or ob/gyn) will center Reproductive Justice (RJ) as a human-rights framework for exploring topics related to reproductive health and abortion care, including approaches to RJ-informed and trauma-informed patient care. The course will present reproductive health education with a focus on the interconnections of power, privilege, oppression, and resistance. Students will engage with critical social theories – including Critical Race Theory, Intersectional Feminism, and Queer Theory – to explore, interrogate, and reflect on the complex sociocultural, medico-legal, and politico-economic context of sexual and reproductive health.

The program is grounded in a pedagogy of liberatory education (Paulo Freire; bell hooks), and in a commitment to practicing an ethics of Love-centered educational care for adult learners that help us create and sustain deeper relationships within intentional communities.

This course will cover healthcare delivery including family planning and abortion care in a post-Roe reality. Even though this is a non-clinical elective, we will significantly incorporate approaches to patient care that are loving and affirmative of the universal human right to bodily autonomy, agency, and dignity, with a focus on correcting and repairing medicine’s ethical failures to honor the bodily autonomy, agency, and dignity of women and femme people generally, and especially Indigenous and Black women, and queer and trans people.

Themes & Topics:

  • Reproductive Justice: Framework, definitions, and herstory
  • Historical Injustices and Today’s Crises: The continuous thread of scientific and medical racism and sexism in Reproductive Health and abortion care
  • Family Planning and Abortion Care: Options counseling, values clarification, medication and procedural abortion, messaging and framing
  • Her Stories of Resistance: Honoring those who fight back, speak up, and labor to get free
  • Power and Control in Reproductive Health & Abortion Care: Religion, morality, masculinity and medicine – who gets to claim the right to shape reality
  • Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice: Access, disparities, and structural competency
  • Reproductive Health Law and Policies: At the intersection of medicine and law, patient and community, care and advocacy
  • Affirmative Patient Care: Sexual and reproductive healthcare for LGB+, trans, queer, and non-binary people
  • Human-centered Care: Professional humility, trauma-informed sensitivity, cultural safety, and non-violent communication
For more information email Dr. Jeff Koetje (jkoetje@amsa.org), Dr. Aliye Runyan (arunyan@amsa.org), and Dr. Charisse Loder (loder@med.umich.edu).