Despite Adequate Training, Only Half of Family Physicians Provide Women’s Health Care Services

Author(s)

Coffman, Megan, Wilkinson, Elizabeth, and Jabbarpour, Yalda

Topic(s)

What Family Physicians Do, and Education & Training

Keyword(s)

Graduate Survey, Rural, JABFM Policy Brief, Graduate Medical Education, Shortage Areas, Maternity Care, and Sexual And Reproductive Health

Volume

Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine

Access to services related to reproductive and sexual health is critical to the health of women but has been threatened in recent years. Family physicians are trained to provide a range of women’s health care services and are an essential part of the health care workforce in rural and underserved areas, where access to these services may be limited.

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