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The AMSAAbortion Care & Reproductive Health Project is excited to host 4 in-person Abortion Care & Reproductive Justice Institutes in summer听 2026. Each Institute will engage 10 U.S. based medical students in thought-provoking, dynamic conversations, as well as issue education, and hands-on clinical skill-building, with key experts working in abortion care, reproductive health and education, research, or reproductive and social justice.

Our retreat-like setting is a beautiful private location nestled deep in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
The Institutes are designed to provide deep dive opportunities to build knowledge, skills, and connections in a supportive, nurturing and Love-centered community, with a focus on finding and connecting with joy as we work on challenging issues facing our communities and future practice as physicians.

Clinical skill-building sessions will include a MVA “papaya” workshop and values-clarification training.
We will explore the impact of the Dobbs decision on reproductive health access, practice and policies at the state level, as well as medication abortion and self-managed abortion. Learning opportunities will also include:

• effective messaging communications
• networking and advocacy training
• building power and your circles of influence
• identifying and engaging reproductive freedom champions in your state, and
• values-based research and using data to make change.

The AMSAReproductive Health Project provides resources and on-going support to organize local education and skill-building sessions for future physicians around the United States. Institute participants will be encouraged and supported to share the knowledge and skills they will gain through research project posters, journal articles, blog posts, social media, or organizing local events during the 2026-2027 academic year.听 Local events could include, but are not limited to: clinical skills-building, networking and advocacy training, issue education, understanding state reproductive health policies, and values-based messaging and research.

The program begins on 听Thursday evening with a group dinner and ends after breakfast on Sunday morning. 听In addition to didactic and clinical workshop-style learning, there will be ample time for informal conversations, delicious meals and snacks, walking in the woods, star-gazing, and relaxing in the hot-tubs and around the fire. Each participant will have their own bedroom, some bathrooms will be shared. Meals will be prepared together.听

• Want to know more?
  Read what a M4 student who joined us last summer had to say about the experience
  Recharging Your Medical Passion: The Power of a Retreat
  Why Every Medical Student Should Do a Medical Retreat (for any specialty)

Successful applicants will receive reimbursements (up to $600) to cover their travel expenses (students make their own travel arrangements). All meals, on-site training supplies, and transportation from the to the retreat location are provided at no cost.听

DEADLINES:

• Application deadline for ALL 2026 Institutes is Sunday, March 29 at 11:59pmPT听
• Applicants are accepted on a rolling basis and will be notified of acceptance at least
  30 days before the Institute they are selected for听
• Selected applicant must confirm attendance within 7 days of notification of their selection

*Upon completion of the Institute, certificates of participation to add to your CV will be provided.

We at the AMSA(麻豆原创) believe that abortion services are a vital component of reproductive health care; that physicians who provide abortion care are essential to our communities; and that their practice should be legally protected and available to all in need regardless of how much they earn, who they work for, or what state they live in.

Program Description:

Developed in partnership between the听听and the听, this virtual elective for U.S. and international fourth-year medical students (in particular, medical students pursuing family medicine or ob/gyn) will center Reproductive Justice (RJ) as a human-rights framework for exploring topics related to reproductive health and abortion care, including approaches to RJ-informed and trauma-informed patient care. The course will present reproductive health education with a focus on the interconnections of power, privilege, oppression, and resistance. Students will engage with critical social theories 鈥� including Critical Race Theory, Intersectional Feminism, and Queer Theory 鈥� to explore, interrogate, and reflect on the complex sociocultural, medico-legal, and politico-economic context of sexual and reproductive health.

The program is grounded in a pedagogy of liberatory education (Paulo Freire; bell hooks), and in a commitment to practicing an ethics of Love-centered educational care for adult learners that help us create and sustain deeper relationships within intentional communities.

This course will cover healthcare delivery including family planning and abortion care in a post-Roe reality. Even though this is a non-clinical elective, we will significantly incorporate approaches to patient care that are loving and affirmative of the universal human right to bodily autonomy, agency, and dignity, with a focus on correcting and repairing medicine鈥檚 ethical failures to honor the bodily autonomy, agency, and dignity of women and femme people generally, and especially Indigenous and Black women, and queer and trans people.

For many years, HEART-IM has taken place at the听, where students spend the month in a cooperative living and learning environment, cooking and cleaning together, teaching and learning from each other. Our 2026 elective will take place Sunday, March 29 鈥� Saturday, April 25, 2026.

AMSAcourse fees听cover all major expenses for the month, including housing, meals, snacks, lectures, evening on-site activities, and local transportation for official activities. Students pay their own way to the designated airport, and transportation is provided from there.听

• Participation cost
  • $500 program course fee through AMSAfor 麻豆原创听members
  • $600 program course fee through AMSAfor听non-members
• Participant travel
  • Participants are responsible for arranging your own travel to either San Francisco (SFO) or San Jose (SJC)

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Topics this program addresses:

• Diversity & Equity in Abortion Access & Our Healthcare Workforce
• Basic Clinical Overview of First & Second Trimester Abortion
• Protecting Reproductive Health: State & Federal Laws that Impact Access & Care
• Reproductive Justice: Framework & Advocacy
• Options Counseling & Values Clarification in Reproductive Care
• Birth Settings in America: Outcomes, Quality, Access, & Choice
• When Routine Training is Unethical & Becomes Illegal: The Case of Intimate Exams for Teaching Purposes

For more information please email rhp@amsa.org

Note: Students attending an international medical schools who are either U.S. citizens or intend to practice in the US may register with the understanding our program focus is on U.S. abortion policy and practice and is not designed to address policy or practice outside the U.S.

Issue Education Teach-In Topics Include:

• The History of Abortion: Roots of Stigma, Opportunities for Change
• Abortion as a Moral & Social Good: The Ethical Basis for Conscientious Provision of Abortion Care
• Religious & Spiritual Affirmation of Abortion
• Men & Abortion – Feminist Frameworks for Male/Masc Abortion Rights Allies
• Fetal Personhood & Criminalizing Pregnancy
• Physicians as Enforcers: Urine Drug Screens, Mandated Reporting & Criminalization of Pregnant People
• Anti-abortion Laws & Maternal Mortality: Turning the Tide
• Birth Justice – A Framework for Improving U.S. Health Outcomes by Uniting Physicians, Midwives & Doulas听
• Reproductive Justice: A Movement & Framework for Equitable Health Care

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• Effective Communication about Abortion Care: What & How We Talk Matters
• Lifting Your Voice: Writing Compelling LTEs,OpEds & Blog Posts
• Building Relationships with Reproductive Freedom Champions in Your State
• Understanding How Bills Become Laws & Regulations Govern Physician Practice
• Finding & Sharing Change-maker Stories in Your Community
• Translating Data & Research Findings into Policy Recommendations
• Designing & Presenting Compelling Research Projects

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