Quality of Care Assessment at a Resident-based Primary Care HIV Clinic

A quality improvement study based in a primary care resident-based HIV clinic, the Kendig Clinic, was conducted within Jefferson Family Medicine Associates. The study objectives were to • Determine the percentage of the clinic patients meeting each quality measure • Compare these calculated clinic measures to known national averages • Use the data to determine areas to target for future quality improvement initiatives.https://jdc.jefferson.edu/cwicposters/1019/thumbnail.jp

Abortion providers in the United States: expanding beyond obstetrics and gynecology

In the years preceding the Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health Organization (2022) decision, there had been a shift in the demographics of abortion providers. Although most abortion providers were obstetricians-gynecologists, there had been a rapid increase in the number of internal medicine and family medicine physicians and advanced practice clinicians providing abortion care. As discourse about limiting abortion access has gained volume over the past few years, so have the number of legislative restrictions aimed at preventing people from seeking abortions. Among these are laws and policies targeted at reducing the number of providers and clinics providing abortion care, resulting in an absence of training, high case volume, and institutional restrictions. With the overturning of Roe v Wade, the landscape of abortion provision will continue to shift further. Action needs to be taken to expand the types of providers getting trained and providing abortions to ensure access for those seeking abortions