Complex Family Planning Fellowship
Program Overview
Accreditation: Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education
Length of Training: 2 years
Number of fellow slots each year: 1
Typical academic year start date: August 1
Strengths of the Program
- All core faculty have completed Fellowship training in Complex Family Planning
- Clinical and procedural training in a variety of patient care settings with a diverse patient population
- The only hospital based abortion provider in the upper Midwest
- Excellent teaching opportunity and growth with resident and medical student trainees
- Opportunity to attend national and regional conferences
- Nationally ranked School of Public Health with fellow protected time to attend classes
General Schedule
- Year 1 – 60% clinical, 40% research/administration/didactic learning
- Clinical training focus on complex family planning at U of MN community and partner sites (Planned Parenthood North Central States and Whole Women's Health MN)
- Year 2 – 60% clinical, 40% research/administration/didactic learning
- Clinical training focus on complex family planning at U of MN and community partner sites (Planned Parenthood North Central States and Whole Women's Health MN)
- Elective rotations - 2 months
- Home call - 1 in 4 weeks (complex family planning procedures only)
Training Sites
- University of Minnesota Medical Center, MHealth Fairview
- Complex Family Planning Clinic, West Bank
- Main operating room, West Bank
- Clinical Surgical Center (CSC), East Bank
- Whole Women’s Health of Minnesota
- Planned Parenthood North Central States
- Vandalia Health Center
- Minneapolis Health Center (research)
Didactics
- Weekly one-hour conference with faculty, fellows, residents, and students with formal family planning presentations, case discussions
- Twice monthly educational sessions based on the following textbooks:
- Management of Unintended and Abnormal Pregnancy
- Speroff & Darney's Clinical Guide to Contraception
- Contraception for Medically Challenging Patients
- Monthly journal club
- Regular research-in-progress meetings
- Monthly M&M meeting
- Monthly Grand Rounds meeting
- Advanced education in research design, statistics, implementation science, epidemiology is supported through courses at U of MN SPH and across academic health center and through other fellowship resources
Research
- Fellows develop and complete a 2 year individualized research education plan prior to starting fellowship to ensure required and personal goals are met.
- Completion of the following programs:
- 1. National Institutes of Health Introduction to Principles and Practice of Clinical Research.
- 2. Research Ethics Training through the UMN CTSI annually
- Certification of Clinical Research through the UMN School of Public Health.
Contact
Christy Boraas, MD, MPH
Allison Mitchell