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Empowering Care: Best Practices for Prescribing Medication Abortion
Learn the basics of medication abortion and be a part of expanding abortion access in primary care. CAFP member faculty will cover legal and historical aspects of abortion, medication abortion safety, protocols, contraindications and complications, and telemedicine provision.
Learning Objectives:
At the end of this session, learners should be able to:
- Explain accepted protocols and contraindications of medication abortion
- Discuss safety and efficacy profile, including complications, of medication abortion
- Identify unique aspects of providing medication abortion through telemedicine
Target Audience:
This activity is designed for family medicine physicians, and other primary care team members.
Participation and Credit:
Learners must register to participate in and receive credit for this online educational activity. Read the target audience, learning objectives, and author disclosures. Study the educational content online and complete the pre- and post-tests and activity evaluation. Your certificate will be available to you as a downloadable link. You may print the certificate, but you cannot alter it. For information on applicability and acceptance of continuing education credit for this activity, please consult your professional licensing board.
Unlabeled Use Disclosure:
This activity will not include discussions of products or devices that are not currently approved for use by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the curriculum clearly indicates this fact.
Support:
This activity is supported by grants from from Essential Health Access and the California Department of Public Health.
Fee:
There is no charge for this activity.
Cultural/Linguistic Competency:
CAFP policy and California state law requires that each learning activity have elements of cultural and linguistic proficiency included in the content. The definition of cultural and linguistic competency is the ability and readiness of health care providers and health organizations to humbly and respectfully demonstrate, effectively communicate, and tailor delivery of care to patients with diverse values, beliefs, identities, and behaviors, in order to meet patients’ social, cultural, and linguistic needs as it relates to patient health. This activity meets these requirements.
Implicit Bias:
CAFP policy and California state law requires that all CME activities comprising a patient care element include either (1) examples of how implicit bias affects perceptions and treatment decisions of physicians and surgeons, leading to disparities in health outcomes and/or (2) strategies to address how unintended biases in decision-making may contribute to health care disparities by shaping behavior and producing differences in medical treatment along lines of race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, socioeconomic status, or other characteristics. This activity meets these requirements.
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Questions:
For questions regarding the content of this activity or for technical assistance, contact [email protected].
The CAFP has made all reasonable efforts to ensure that information contained herein is accurate in accordance with the latest available scientific knowledge at the time of accreditation of this continuing education program. Information regarding drugs (e.g., their administration, dosages, contraindications, adverse reactions, interactions, special warnings, and precautions) and drug delivery systems is subject to change, however, and the learner is advised to check the manufacturer's package insert for information concerning recommended dosage and potential problems or cautions prior to dispensing or administering the drug or using the drug delivery systems.
Approval of credit for this continuing education program does not imply endorsement by CAFP of any product or manufacturer identified.
Any medications or treatment methods suggested in this CME activity should not be used by the practitioner without evaluation of their patient's condition(s) and possible contraindication(s) or danger(s) of use of any specific medication.
Copyright:
© 2025 California Academy of Family Physicians. No part of this activity may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embedded in articles or reviews.
Panna Lossy, MD
Panna Lossy, MD (she/her) serves as the Director of Clinic Integration at TEACH where she leads efforts to support integration of abortion services at primary care clinics. Dr. Lossy is board certified Family Medicine Physician with over 25 years of experience providing primary care including abortion and reproductive health care in community health centers. A UCSF Clinical Professor, she was the Women’s Health Faculty Lead at the Santa Rosa Family Medicine Residency for 25 years. During that time she oversaw the first integration of abortion into the Family Practice center on the west coast. When the Family Practice Center transitioned to being a FQHC, she spearheaded efforts to ensure compliance with the Hyde amendment. Dr. Lossy has trained hundreds of Family Doctors in full spectrum reproductive health care, presented at national meetings and published related to early abortion and miscarriage. Dr. Lossy is one of the founders and current faculty of TEACH (Training in Early Abortion for Comprehensive Healthcare) and has worked with the California Primary Care Association, Essential Access, Midwest Access Project and Reproductive Access Project on integration efforts. Dr. Lossy is also an alumni and board member for California Health Care Foundation Leadership Fellowship and a board member of the California Academy of Family Physicians.
Dr. Lossy has no relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.
Allison Slater, MD, MBE
Allison Slater, MD, MBE (she/her) is the TEACH Fellow. Dr. Slater grew up in San Diego, CA as the daughter of a family physician and ESL teacher. Her upbringing inspired her commitment to language access and person-centered care for all people. She majored in Spanish language and Hispanic Studies at Scripps College, where she was introduced to intersectional feminism and had the opportunity to study health systems in Argentina and literature in Spain. After college, she spent a year in Mexico City as a Fulbright scholar researching the patient experience in safety net family planning clinics. She completed medical school in UC Irvine’s PRIME-LC program, which trains bilingual physician-advocates for the Latinx community. In medical school, she pursued her passion for trauma-informed reproductive care through abortion rotations in CA and Mexico, and created a trauma-informed care curriculum which has become part of her medical school’s core curriculum. Dr. Slater also completed a Master of Bioethics at Harvard where she focused on reproductive health ethics and moral obligations of clinicians to prioritize professional medical interpretation with patients who have limited English proficiency. She graduated from Sutter Santa Rosa’s Family Medicine residency. She envisions a future where all people have access to all reproductive options, without stigma, judgment, or shame, embedded into affordable, accessible primary care.
Dr. Slater has no relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.
Conflict of Interest Statements:
The CAFP Committee on Continuing Professional Development is responsible for management and resolution of conflict for any individual who may have influence on content, who have served as faculty, or who may produce or help produce CME/CPD content for the CAFP. Management/Resolution may include learner notification, peer review of content before presentation, changing topics, or even dismissing a potential faculty member.
It is the policy of the CAFP to ensure independence, balance, objectivity, scientific rigor, and integrity in all continuing education activities. All individuals with potential to influence the content of this program have submitted Conflict of Interest declarations that have been reviewed according to policy. Learner notification of declarations is below. All individuals with potential conflicts have been contacted by CAFP staff or CCPD members, and issues of conflict have been discussed, managed, and resolved.
CME Planners:
The following planners have no relevant financial relationships to disclose: Laurie Isenberg, MILS, MA, CHCP, Megan Kumar, MPH and Brittany Perrotte, MPH
1.00 AAFP Prescribed Credit
The AAFP has reviewed the enduring activity, Empowering Care: Best Practices for Prescribing Medication Abortion - Enduring, and deemed it acceptable for up to 1.00 AAFP Prescribed credit. Term of Approval is from 03/03/2025 to 03/02/2026. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
AAFP Prescribed credit is accepted by the American Medical Association as equivalent to AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ toward the AMA Physician's Recognition Award. When applying for the AMA PRA, Prescribed credit earned must be reported as Prescribed credit, not as Category 1.
Available Credit
- 1.00 AAFP Prescribed