Abortion is a common experience for people around the world; yet it is often excluded from the curricula of health professionals. The Abortion Course: Quality Care and Public Health Implications was created to fill in the gaps left by the exclusion of abortion from mainstream curricula.
Course Development & Description
Led by Jody Steinauer, MD, PhD (she/her), Abortion: Quality Care and Public Health Implications was developed as a MOOC presented on Coursera.com in the fall of 2014. More than 20 UCSF faculty and other experts on the clinical, social science, global health, and public health aspects of abortion contributed lectures and content to the course. Innovating Education in Reproductive Health has maintained free access and updated these course materials since its launch.
Most lectures in the abortion course can be viewed with subtitles in Spanish or French. French translation was made possible by the Safe Abortion Action Fund and International Planned Parenthood Federation. Click the Closed Captions button on video lectures to access subtitles.
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