OBGYN: Family Planning Elective 2.5 Credits/Maximum of 2.5

Catalog description

The Family Planning elective course will enhance patient-centered communication and counseling via outpatient clinical experiences in established early pregnancy and contraception clinics at Penn State, as well as a local Planned Parenthood affiliate clinic providing outpatient abortion care in the first trimester. Students will practice history-taking, review of ultrasound imaging in early pregnancy, and patient-centered counseling. Students may also have the opportunity to assist in procedures under sedation in the main operating room at HMC and at the Hershey Outpatient Surgery Center, as patient care dictates and schedules allow.