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Am I Helping or Harming? Unbiased Communication about Pregnancy
By the end of this activity, you'll gain a deeper understanding of how implicit bias can affect the care that pregnant patients receive. Through engaging case studies, you'll also have the chance to explore and reflect on your own biases related to pregnancy and pregnancy options.
This activity will guide you through thoughtful questions to help you assess your knowledge in providing care for diverse populations that may become pregnant. It will also support you in self-reflection, encouraging you to identify areas where you can make positive changes to enhance your practice and provide more inclusive, empathetic care.
Learning Objectives:
This module is intended to support you in achieving the following learning objectives:
- Identify ways implicit bias can impact pregnancy options counseling
- Identify your own implicit biases related to pregnancy and pregnancy options
- Identify ways you can change your practice to address implicit biases when providing options counseling and sexual & reproductive health care in the future
- Communicate about pregnancy options using a non-coercive, non-biased, trauma-informed framework
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. You will encounter three types of questions. Your identity and responses to all questions will remain anonymous.
- Self-assessment: These questions have no right or wrong answer, but at times will be followed by an explanation or additional resources to support your thinking about the topic.
- Quiz questions: These questions are based on medical and scientific knowledge. After submitting your response, you will see a correct answer, explanation, and associated resources. We encourage you to bookmark these additional resources for further exploration.
- Open-ended reflection questions: Questions that are completely personal in nature and encourage deeper thinking. There is no point of comparison for these responses.
Study the educational content online, answer all questions and complete the 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 a grant from the California Department of Public Health Reproductive Justice Fund.
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 cafp@familydocs.org.
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.
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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:
© 2024 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.
Sheila Attaie, DO
Dr. Sheila Attaie (she/her) is an Iranian-American family physician from the Sacramento area. She is an assistant clinical professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at University of California, Davis. She is also a contract provider with Lilith Clinic and Planned Parenthood Great Plains, as well as a volunteer for the M+A hotline. Her interests in medicine include abortion liberation, refugee and immigrant health, and mental health. Outside of medicine, she fills her cup with hiking, snowboarding, dancing, DJing, and international travel!
Disclosure: Dr. Attaie has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.
Shannon Connolly, MD, FAAFP
Dr Connolly completed medical school at the University of Southern California and residency in family medicine at UCLA. She is currently the Associate Medical Director at Planned Parenthood of Orange and San Bernardino Counties, where she oversees primary care and behavioral health care. She has served as president of the California Academy of Family Physicians and is currently Chair of the Committee on Justice through Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion for the CAFP. Additionally, she sits on the Commission for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Family Medicine for the American Academy of Family Physicians. Her clinical interests include abortion and family planning, gender affirming care, and health equity.
Disclosure: Dr. Connolly has no relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.
C. Peony Khoo, MD, FAAFP
Dr. Khoo (she/her) is a family physician in downtown Los Angeles. She serves as the Associate Program Director at the California Hospital Medical Center Family Medicine Residency Program where she provides full-spectrum family medicine care, including surgical obstetrics. She is also a Supervising Physician at Planned Parenthood Pasadena and San Gabriel Valley. She serves in leadership positions in family medicine in local, state, and national committees. Her clinical interests include reproductive health, obstetrics, addiction medicine, and lactation/breastfeeding medicine.
Disclosure: Dr. Khoo has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.
Aisha Wagner, DO
Dr. Wagner completed medical school at the Keck School of Medicine and residency at University of California, San Francisco. She then went on to do a fellowship in Reproductive Health and Advocacy in New York through the Reproductive Health Access Project, as well as a fellowship with Physicians for Reproductive Health. Dr. Wagner currently works providing primary care at an FQHC, as a contract provider for Planned Parenthood Los Angeles, fellowship director for TEACH (Training in Early Abortion for Comprehensive Healthcare), and recently as the co-Chief Medical Officer for Choix Health, a telehealth platform offering MAB.
She has created and collaborated on reproductive health, reproductive rights, and reproductive justice advocacy projects, taught women’s health procedures (including abortion) to medical students, residents, nurse practitioners, and other medical professionals. She has also spoken as an expert on contraception and abortion care with media, state representatives, on panels, and as an invited Grand Rounds speaker.
In her free time (which is very limited these days) she enjoys buying ridiculous numbers of plants.
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 Reviewers & Planners:
The following content reviewers and planners have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose: Gabrielle Brown, MPA, Prachi Priyam, MD, MPH, Laurie Isenberg, MILS, MA, CHCP, Brittany Perrotte, MPH
The AAFP has reviewed the enduring activity, Am I Helping or Harming?: Unbiased Communication about Sexual & Reproductive Health, and deemed it acceptable for up to 1.50 AAFP Prescribed credit. Term of Approval is from 12/02/2024 to 12/01/2025. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
The California Academy of Family Physicians is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The California Academy of Family Physicians also designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s).TM
Available Credit
- 1.50 AAFP Prescribed
- 1.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™