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Albert Einstein College of Medicine
The Family Planning Fellowship at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center is housed within the Department of Family and Social Medicine (DFSM). Our department has a 30 year history of providing comprehensive primary care to underserved communities. This fellowship emphasizes the integration of abortion care into the routine practice of family medicine. Fellows will develop competence in providing first trimester abortion care, both medication and aspiration. We have a train-the-trainer program, so fellows can develop skills for training family medicine residents, and other primary care providers, in early abortion care.
Fellows learn to be competent first-trimester abortion providers, training both at PPNYC and at our community health centers. We have a “dedicated” abortion session at our primary family medicine teaching clinic, where we provide both MVA and medication abortion. Fellows also provide early abortion care to their continuity patients in the community health center where they work. Fellows rotate through PPNYC to have a high-volume experience in aspiration procedures. The fellows have extensive experience with the integration of abortion care into the family medicine community health center, including systems changes and quality assurance. They teach residents and medical students, as well as faculty, about abortion care, contraception, and EC. They demonstrate the importance of including abortion as an important component of ambulatory family medicine. We also focus on the psychosocial component of abortion care, both for the patients (and their families) as well as for the fellows and their families, as they transition to become abortion providers. We also focus on their teaching skills. They develop and provide many interactive teaching sessions at the medical school, the residency program, and at professional meetings. They mentor medical students during the family medicine rotation on several EC projects. Fellows learn to be competent abortion trainers, both at PPNYC and at the community health centers. Fellows are expected to complete an MPH at the Mailman School of Public Health of Columbia University. Most fellows elect to work in the Division of Population and Family Health Fellows are usually in many classes together, and also have fellows from the Columbia family planning fellowship in the same classes. DFSM at AECOM has a research division with expertise in health systems research, educational evaluation, and qualitative methodology. Fellows can develop their own project and/or collaborate with AECOM faculty or outside faculty on existing projects. Current DFSM research projects include investigations into cross-cultural issues and teenage sexuality. We also have educational expertise in developing and evaluating innovative teaching programs. DFSM fellows collaborate with other faculty in our department, as well as with other primary care and Ob-Gyn faculty within the institution. We have also begun to collaborate with other fellowship and non-fellowship family medicine sites on projects. Overall mentoring in the program is provided by Dr. Marji Gold, the fellowship director. Each fellow meets one-on-one with her each month, to review clinical and research progress, as well as to address general personal and professional development toward becoming a leader in the field of family planning, with an emphasis on leadership in family medicine. Additional mentoring, tailored to the fellow’s research interests, is available through other faculty both within and outside the department. While not a main focus of the fellowship, most fellows have taken time for international travel for experiences in family planning and abortion. We encourage fellows to participate in an international rotation and the director, with support from the Fellowship National Office, gives guidance and assistance in arranging such experiences.
Marji Gold , MD is Professor of Family and Social Medicine at AECOM, and has been faculty in the department since 1976.
Research and Clinical Interests of the Directors
Current Faculty Research Projects
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