Assessing the Importance and Availability of Family Planning Policies for Surgical Residency Programs
Despite recent guidelines, there remains marked variability in the availability and quality of policies and resources related to family planning for physician trainees. It is imperative that governing bodies and institutions take steps toward creating more consistent training environments through improvement through such initiatives as the development of publicly accessible institutional resources, advocacy for fair access to fertility preservation, and expansion of institutional services and programming.
Authors
- Kathleen Botterbush (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2721-0684)
- Michael Cox
- Hannah Weiss
- Rachel Moor (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2787-4317)
- Anna R. Kimata (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9983-7382)
- Nora C. Kim (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9487-9452)
- Jenna Koenig (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6952-955X)
- Karen Malacon (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4782-0466)
- Regan M. Shanahan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5846-9966)
- Sharona Ben‐Haim (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3864-6443)
- Maryam Rahman
- Martina Mustroph
Institutions
- University of Kentucky (US)
- Emory University (US)
- University of San Diego (US)
- Brown University (US)
- University of Florida (US)
- University of California San Diego (US)
- NYU Langone Health (US)
- University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (US)
- Stanford Medicine (US)
- Indiana University School of Medicine
- Saint Louis University (US)
- Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis (US)
- The University of Texas at Austin (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Annals of Surgery
- Published
- 2025-09-12
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1097/sla.0000000000006937
- Primary Topic
- Diversity and Career in Medicine
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00