Strategy
Ensure clinicians have education on providing contraceptive care for people with disabilities.
Action Step(s)
- Conduct training sessions or in-services centered around contraceptive knowledge and provision for patients with disabilities.
- Invite and include all clinicians that care for patients with disabilities in co-learning sessions or journal clubs on contraceptive knowledge, counseling, or techniques.
Tools & Resources
- Contraceptive Counseling for Patients with Disabilities (website) https://www.contemporaryobgyn.net/view/contraceptive-counseling-patients-disabilities: Case study illustrating how to navigate the complex issues clinicians might encounter in contraceptive counseling for those with cognitive diversity.
- Reproductive Rights and Access to Reproductive Services for Women with Disabilities (website and pdf). https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/reproductive-rights-and-access-reproductive-services-women-disabilities/2016-04: Publication from the AMA journal of ethics describing equitable access to reproductive healthcare for women with disabilities