Our CFP educational curriculum is very robust. Most conferences include faculty from both sites and other specialists and team members to ensure care coordination and multidisciplinary input into care.
Highlights of our educational curriculum include:
- Weekly fellowship didactics with core CFP faculty and CFP webinar series
- Weekly Departmental Grand Rounds
- Weekly CFP fellow research project meetings
- Monthly Quality Improvement Education
- Monthly Departmental M&M Conference
- Monthly progress meetings with the program director
- Monthly Gynegology Quality Assurance Committee meetings (Hartford Hospital)
- Quarterly Family Planning Journal Club
- Quarterly skills simulation with CFP faculty
- Yearly attendance at SFP Annual Meeting
Advocacy Opportunities
Advocacy is a core element of training for physicians, especially those in the field of complex family planning. We encourage all fellows to develop their skills as physician advocates on the institutional, state, and national levels.
- Media training through our hospital-based media relations team
- Contributions through media spotlight interviews and written pieces
- Opportunities to contribute in the local landscape
- Community panels on reproductive health and health justice topics
- Participate in live and written testimony during the state legislative session
- Join intersectional community groups, advocacy groups, and local abortion fund efforts
- Participating in advocacy trainings for residents and medical students
- Further educational opportunities that fellows are encouraged to attend or apply to
- Physicians for Reproductive Health Leadership Training Academy (2nd year)
- ACOG Policy Rotation in Washington, D.C. (2nd year)
- Attend the annual ACOG Congressional Leadership Conference