The six-module Ryan Program Didactic Curriculum in Family Planning contains the latest research and evidence-based practices, and includes learning objectives, articles, videos, and quizzes.
Thank you to the following members of the Ryan Program Curriculum Advisory Committee for carefully reviewing our curriculum content for the 2025-26 academic year. The curriculum is updated every two years and will be re-reviewed for AY 2027. If you are already accessing the didactic curriculum on RHEcourse, please make sure to copy the updated 2025-26 template to your dashboard. Previous versions will be invalid and should not be used.
- Module I Introduction to Reproductive Justice: Biftu Mengesha, MD, MAS, Sanithia Williams, MD, FACOG, Zoë Lucier-Julian, MD, MPH, Bhavik Kumar, MD, MPH, and Kristyn Brandi, MD, MPH
- Module II Overview of Abortion Care: Jody Steinauer, MD, PhD and Megan Lawley, MD, MPH
- Module III First-Trimester Uterine Aspiration Abortion and Second-Trimester Dilation and Evacuation: Deborah Bartz, MD, MPH and Katherine Brown, MD, MAS
- Module IV Medication Abortion up to 28 Weeks Gestation: Sarah Averbach, MD, MAS and Sarita Sonalkar, MD, MPH
- Module V Early Pregnancy Loss Management: Sarah Prager, MD, MAS and Robin Wallace, MD, MAS
- Module VI Contraception: Valerie French, MD, MAS and Antoinette Nguyen, MD, MPH
- Career Planning Resources: Kristin Simonson, MA
- Don’t forget: Our Policy and Advocacy Curriculum is also available on RHEcourse. This eight-course curriculum in family planning advocacy and policy engagement includes a series of short video lectures featuring faculty and experts in reproductive health education, policy, and clinical care.
The Ryan Program Curriculum is hosted by Innovating Education in Reproductive Health on their free online reproductive health education platform, RHEcourse. Through RHEcourse, instructors can add the Ryan Program Curriculum template course to their dashboard, customize content, assign to learners, and track progress. Please note that the Policy and Advocacy Module is a separate template course and would need to be added to the instructor dashboard.
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