AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
California Legislature Requires Abortion Training.(Brief Article)
A bill requiring that California residency programs in obstetrics and gynecology comply with the guidelines of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), which requires training in abortions, passed the California legislature and is expected to be signed by pro-abortion Governor Gray Davis.
Proponents and the author of the bill, Assemblywoman Hannah Beth Jackson (D-Santa Barbara), argued that it was necessary to assure access to abortions due to an aging and dwindling number of doctors willing to do abortions. They cited a 2000 Kaiser Family Foundation Survey, which found that a majority of doctors who perform abortions are over 50, and that doctors over 65 are twice as likely to perform abortions than those under 40.
Brian Johnston, executive director of California ProLife Council, insisted that "it stretches credulity to argue that there is a shortage of abortionists in California. The fact that we have seen more than 300,000 abortions in some recent years in California belies that possibility."
If most physicians do not do abortions, he added, "It is because they enter the field of medicine in order to preserve life, not to destroy it."
Pro-lifers also argued that the requirement was not only both compulsory and offensive but unnecessary. Several committee analyses have shown that obstetrics and gynecology students are already required to complete the ACGME-approved residency program, which includes access to experience with ...
- ACGME will limit residents' work hours by July 2003. (80-Hour-Week Maximum).
- Magazine article from: OB GYN News Peters, Sally July 15, 2002 700+ words
...Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) says in its new standards, which will go into...difficult to balance education and patient care, the ACGME said in a statement. Calls to ACGME for comment were not returned by press time...
- ACGME clamps down on hours for residents.
- Newspaper article from: Hospital Peer Review August 1, 2002 700+ words
ACGME clamps down on hours for residents New standards...Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) in Chicago recently took strong action...training programs across the country. The ACGME is responding to growing concerns about changes...
- Hours of doctors-in-training: Who's counting?; ACGME's restrictions limiting...
- Magazine article from: Modern Healthcare Romano, Michael August 19, 2002 700+ words
...to highlight key differences between the ACGME's proposals and the far more stringent...happens, we will continue our work. (The ACGME's guidelines) have, in fact, strengthened...a national advocacy group, called the ACGME's proposals ``a last-gasp effort...
- New ACGME requirements start this month.(News)(American Council for Graduate...
- Magazine article from: Skin & Allergy News Brunk, Doug July 1, 2007 700+ words
...Roenigk, a dermatologic surgeon who chairs ACGME's Residency Review Committee for Dermatology...to maintain a surgical case log with the ACGME, similar to the log required of all other...a requirement since 1990, but we added ACGME-accredited training," Dr. Roenigk...
- PRO & CON: Should ACGME accredit a fellowship in dermatologic surgery?...
- Magazine article from: Skin & Allergy News November 1, 2001 700+ words
...reacts to the development of one. Through ACGME, the Dermatology Residency Review Committee...programs on an ongoing basis. By objecting to ACGME accreditation of dermatologic surgery fellowship...Dermatologic Surgery Fellowship programs become ACGME accredited, a de facto legitimacy will...
- Patient Care is Focus of ABMS/ACGME Joint Conference.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire August 21, 2006 700+ words
...Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), will be held Nov. 2 and 3, in Rosemont...to this year's program." Past ABMS/ACGME conferences on the core competencies have...certification of physician specialists. ACGME is a private professional organization...
- New Health Care Company to Offer Training and CMEs on Physician - Patient...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire April 15, 2008 700+ words
...the most difficult requirements of the ACGME Outcomes Project. "Civility in health...care." Residency Programs to Fulfill ACGME Requirements Residency programs are being...organization to offer education and training on ACGME required competencies, specifically focusing...
- Verinform Systems, Inc. Launches VerinformRM 2.0; Version 2.0 Features Full...
- Press release article from: Business Wire March 31, 2003 700+ words
...clinical training programs at large teaching institutions under ACGME Resident Duty Hours regulations taking effect on July 1st...major adjustments in rotation and call schedules to satisfy new ACGME Resident Duty Hours limits and then satisfy a set of monitoring...
