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Johns Hopkins University
The Fellowship in Family Planning at Johns Hopkins University was one of the first established fellowship sites. The fellowship is based at Bayview Medical Center, one of two main teaching hospitals at Johns Hopkins. The fellowship provides a mix of clinical training, public health, experience in policy and advocacy, and clinical research. In addition to specialized training in family planning, fellows are also members of the generalist faculty, and serve as attending physicians in obstetrics and gynecology. The implementation this year of a Ryan Program adds a new dimension to the fellowship. Mentorship is provided by the family planning fellowship group that includes Acting Fellowship Director Anne Burke MD, MPH, George Huggins, MD, Roxanne Jamshidi, MD, MPH, and Rameet Singh, MD, MPH.
The fellowship provides training in first and second trimester abortions. First trimester procedures are offered both in an outpatient hospital setting and a free-standing clinic. Second trimester procedures are provided in a hospital-based clinic. Additional clinical opportunities are available through a local public high school clinic, where fellows provide family planning counseling and services to students under the mentorship of the school clinician, and through a city Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) Clinic, which is partly staffed by Hopkins faculty. New clinical activities as of 2007 include a specialty Contraceptive Clinic at Bayview and a collaboration with a Hopkins-affiliated HIV clinic. First year fellows are expected to obtain a Masters in Public Health (MPH) at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. This intensive, 11-month program is a major focus of the fellows’ first year. Fellows are encouraged to concentrate in Epidemiology or Biostatistics, although other concentrations are options as well. Alternative educational opportunities may be available to fellows who have already obtained the MPH. Fellows are expected to design and execute a research project of their choice during fellowship. In many cases, this project can also fulfill requirements for the MPH degree. Our focus has primarily been clinical research. A research project can be tailored to a fellow’s specific interests. Topics can include first or second trimester abortion, contraceptive development or effectiveness, access to reproductive health care, or international family planning. Fellows may also act as co-investigators for multiple industry and NIH-sponsored contraceptive studies. Fellowship faculty enjoy collegial relations with other members of the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, including the Maternal Fetal Medicine, Gyn/Onc, Reproductive Endocrinology, and Urogynecology divisions. There are ongoing research collaborations with faculty in the Division of Infectious Disease and the Department of Epidemiology at the School of Public Health, as well as clinical and educational collaborations with the Gates Institute for Reproductive Health and the Department of General Internal Medicine. In addition, we enjoy good relations with our colleagues at Planned Parenthood and the Baltimore City Health Department. Mentorship is provided by the family planning faculty. This group includes Interim Director Anne Burke, MD, MPH, Professor and Acting Chair George Huggins, MD, Roxanne Jamshidi, MD, MPD, and Rameet Singh, MD, MPH. Half-day research meetings take place regularly. Family planning clinics and procedures are mentored by a faculty member. Additional mentoring is provided by the group to facilitate and support fellow research. Diverse international contacts established by JHU faculty offer a broad range of international experiences in training, program evaluation or research. The program expects fellows to participate in an international rotation and, with the Fellowship’s national staff, provides assistance in arranging such experiences.
Anne Burke, MD, MPH, is Assistant Professor in the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics. She completed her medical degree at the University of Pittsburgh, residency at Pennsylvania Hospital, and family planning fellowship at Johns Hopkins University. She obtained her Masters in Public Health at Hopkins. Her research interests include postpartum contraception in high-risk populations, and factors affecting access to and utilization of contraceptives. Anne is a Co-Investigator with the NIH Contraceptive Clinical Trials Network. She has been a consultant to several reproductive health organizations, and lectures periodically for the Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Gates Institute for Reproductive Health. She has also been involved in reproductive health advocacy activities, including testifying before the Maryland state legislature.
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