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Update your knowledge on current issues in reproductive health at the annual Contraceptive Technology conference. The Washington, DC, session is scheduled for Feb. 29-March 3, with the San Francisco session set for March 24-27.
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Will adding male programs to existing family planning services subtract from existing care?
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Review the number of services offered at your family planning agency, then check off the number that address the reproductive health needs of men. If your agency is like most of the facilities participating in a recently published survey, you may be serving some male patients, but doing very little to recruit more.
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From adolescence on, most men need information and counseling about sexual and reproductive matters, and they need somewhere reliable to go for related education and health care.
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When you review birth control options with your female patients, you tick off several items: a shot, a patch, an intravaginal ring, intra-uterine devices, barrier methods, and several types of pills.
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New developments are arising on the vasectomy front, with researchers taking a look at the effectiveness of different methods of vas deferens occlusion and identifying chemical candidates to help speed up time to vasectomy success.
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Your next patient is a young woman who has pressed for an appointment Monday morning after her boyfriends condom broke on Sunday night. Your formulary calls for use of progestin-only emergency contraception pills (ECPs). What is your next step?
