Strategy
Ensure pediatricians understand their role in the provision of contraceptive care.
Action Step(s)
- Conduct training sessions or in-services to allow pediatric specific education around contraceptive knowledge and provision.
- Invite and include pediatric clinicians in co learning sessions or journal clubs on contraceptive knowledge, counseling, or techniques.
Tools & Resources
- Contraception for Adolescents (website with PDF): Policy statement from the American Academy of Pediatrics providing pediatricians with a description and rationale for best practices in counseling and providing contraceptive care for adolescents. An important editorial note: although this is an important piece for the rationale of pediatricians providing contraceptive care, the authors of this change package do disagree with the document’s position that abstinence is 100% effective at preventing pregnancy and with the assertion of “LARC first” for any community.
- Adolescents and long-acting reversible contraceptives: beyond the basics (Article): An important companion piece to the document, “Contraception for Adolescents” describing why contraceptive counseling for adolescents should be patient-centered and not “LARC first” to avoid coercion.
- Long-Acting Reversible Contraception: Specific Issues for Adolescents (website with PDF): Clinical Report from the American Academy of Pediatrics on the pediatricians role in providing accurate, patient-centered contraceptive counseling.
- Emergency Contraception (website with PDF): Policy statement from the American Academy of Pediatrics to educate clinicians on available methods of emergency contraception and their use.