In addition to compliance with ACGME and CREOG requirements and improving resident training in all aspects of uterine evacuation and contraception, the establishment of a Ryan Program offers numerous additional benefits to a department of obstetrics and gynecology:
- Attracting residency applicants who want to learn clinical skills in all aspects of family planning
- Streamlining patient care through efficient use of hospital resources
- Introducing new, evidence-based techniques and practices
- Increasing opportunities for research
Residents and faculty report improved competence in clinical skills:
- Gynecologic and obstetric ultrasound skills
- Early gestational bimanual exam
- Prevention and management of abortion-related complications
- Uterine evacuation techniques
- Manual and electric uterine aspiration (MUA & EUA)
- Dilation and evacuation
- Cervical dilation techniques
- Medication abortion
- Patient counseling
- Management of fetal demise and miscarriage
- Diagnosis of early pregnancy failure
- Outpatient use of the manual aspiration syringe
- Medical management
- Contraceptive management
- Contraceptive counseling
- Postpartum and postabortion contraception
- Enhanced training in the use of LARC, including postpartum and post-abortion
- Care of patients with comorbidities
- Pain management for outpatient gynecologic procedures
- Oral analgesia
- Local anesthesia
- Intravenous sedation
- Counseling techniques
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Twenty Years of the Ryan Residency Training Program in Abortion and Family Planning: