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MSFC Annual Meeting
November 15-16, 2008
St. Louis, MO*

REGISTRATION DEADLINE: October 17, 2008

MEDICAL STUDENTS FOR CHOICE'S 16TH ANNUAL MEETING: YOUR GATEWAY TO COMPREHENSIVE MEDICAL EDUCATION

MSFC’s 16th Annual Meeting: MSFC is excited to announce our 16th Annual Meeting: Your Gateway to Comprehensive Medical Education! We are thrilled to have the opportunity to provide a second educational and inspirational annual meeting this year. We hope that you will find the sessions listed in our program-at-a-glance a valuable part of your medical education and we look forward to seeing you at the meeting! For registration and scholarship forms please click here.

This year, as usual, we have a CLINICAL TRACK, which will give you lots of basics on surgical and medical abortion techniques. We are also continuing our ADVANCED TRACK, geared specifically toward residents and 3rd- and 4th-year students.

Who should attend: Medical students, residents, and other health professionals-in-training who are committed to providing the full range of quality reproductive health care to future patients.

*For security reasons, MSFC does not publicize the location of the Annual Meeting. After registering, attendees will receive a confirmation email with details about the specific location.

Registration costs are as follows: $75 for Medical Students, Residents, and their Guests. $300 for non-medical-student colleague from a pro-choice organization. Hotel rooms average $89 for a four-person room

MEETING SCHEDULE (subject to change):

Friday November 14, 2008

8:30 am – 5:00 pm – Board of Directors Meeting (Restricted)

3:00 pm – 6:00 pm – Registration Open

Saturday November 15, 2008 - 10:30 – 12:00 pm

7:30 am – 5:00 pm - Registration Open

7:30 am – 9:00 am – Networking Breakfast

9:00 am – 10:15 am – Keynote Address - Provider Is Not a Four Letter Word: The Importance of Including Abortion in Your Practice

10:30 am – 11:45 am – Concurrent Sessions

• Methods in First Trimester Abortion (Clinical Track)

• Deciding to Train and Deciding to Provide: Results From a National Mixed-Methods Study of Ob/Gyn Residents

• Words of Choice: Combating Anti-Abortion Rhetoric
***Enrollment is limited to 80 participants. Pre-registration is required on a first-come, first-served basis. Please see the registration form.

• Access Barriers Caused By Religiously-Affiliated Hospital Expansions

• Contraception: Does Cost Really Matter? – (Advanced Track)

12:00 pm – 1:30 pm – Luncheon

1:45 pm – 3:00 pm – Concurrent Sessions

• Manual Vacuum Aspiration (Papaya Workshop) - (Clinical Track)

• Counseling Fetal Anomalies Patients: A Case Study Approach

• Implanon: The BMW of Birth Control

• Setting Up a Student-Run Abortion Clinic: Challenges and Opportunities

• From Back Alley to Broad Day Light: A Family Planning Fellow's Experience with Abortion Legalization in Nepal and Mexico City

3:30 pm – 5:00 pm

• Practitioners’ Perspectives — 4 Concurrent Breakouts

Sunday November 16, 2008

7:30 am – 12:00 pm – Student Advisory Council Meeting (Restricted)

7:30 am – 12:00 pm – Registration Open

7:30 am – 9:00 am – Continental Breakfast

9:00 am – 10:15 am – Concurrent Sessions

• Issues In 2nd Trimester Abortion (Clinical Track)

• The Pro-Choice Medical Student’s Guide To Applying For Residency (Advanced Track)

• It Takes Two.....A Man's Place in Family Planning

• How Late Is “Too Late”? Considering Our Comfort With Gestational Age And Abortion

10:30 am – 11:45 am Concurrent Sessions

• No-Scalpel Vasectomy: How to Provide Permanent, Effective Contraception in 10 Minutes or Less (Advanced Track)

• The Legal Picture: Protecting Women’s Access to Reproductive Health in the U.S. and Canada

• Myth versus Reality: Providing Patient-Centered, Evidence-Based Contraceptive Choices

• Reproducing Inequality: How Health Care Systems and Health Care Providers Contribute to Reproductive Health Disparities

12:00 pm – 1:00 pm - Luncheon

1:00 pm Closing Plenary – Choosing Abortion as a Religious Freedom Issue

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