AMSA Abortion Care & Reproductive Justice Institutes -  2024 Summer A & B Application Form 
The AMSA Abortion Care & Reproductive Justice Institutes are back live & in-person this summer in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Asheville, North Carolina!  Two date options: July 25-28 (Summer A) & August 8-11 (Summer B)

If YOU are interested in becoming part of a diverse physician workforce that includes highly skilled, culturally sensitive physicians prepared to provide abortion services to those who need them in various health care workplaces.  And available EITHER of these two date options:  
  • July 25-28 (Summer A) 
  • August 8-11 (Summer B)
READ ON & APPLY BELOW!
Application Deadline - Monday, June 24 at 11:59pmPT

The AMSA Abortion Care & Reproductive Health Project is excited to host 2 in-person Abortion Care & Reproductive Justice Institutes this summer. Each Institute will engage 10 U.S. based medical students in thought-provoking, dynamic conversations, as well as issue education, and hands-on clinical skill-building, with key experts working in abortion care, reproductive health and education, research, or reproductive and social justice.  

Our retreat-like setting is a beautiful private location nestled deep in the Blue Ridge Mountains. The Institutes are designed to provide deep dive opportunities to build knowledge, skills, and connections in a supportive, nurturing and Love-centered community, with a focus on finding and connecting with joy as we work on challenging issues facing our communities and future practice as physicians.

Clinical skill-building sessions will include a MVA "papaya" workshop and values-clarification training. We will explore the impact of the Dobbs decision on reproductive health access, practice and policies at the state level, as well as medication abortion and self-managed abortion. Learning opportunities will also include: 
  • effective messaging communications, 
  • networking and advocacy training, 
  • building power and your circles of influence, 
  • identifying and engaging reproductive freedom champions in your state, and 
  • values-based research and using data to make change.
The AMSA Reproductive Health Project provides resources and on-going support to organize local education and skill-building sessions for future physicians around the United States. Institute participants will receive a variety of take-home resources and assistance to organize 1 or more local events during the 2024-2025 academic year. Local events could include, but are not limited to: clinical skills-building, networking and advocacy training, issue education, understanding state reproductive health policies, and values-based messaging and research.

The program begins on Thursday evening with a group dinner and ends after breakfast on Sunday morning.  In addition to didactic and clinical workshop-style learning, there will be ample time for informal conversations, delicious meals and snacks, walking in the woods, star-gazing, and relaxing in the hot-tubs and around the fire. Each participant will have their own bedroom, some bathrooms will be shared. Meals will be prepared together. (Find more details about our Summer 2024 Institutes here)

Successful applicants will receive stipend reimbursements (up to $600) to cover their travel expenses (students make their own travel arrangements). All meals, on-site training supplies, and transportation from the Asheville airport to the retreat location are provided at no cost. 

DEADLINES:
  • Application deadline is Monday, June 24 at 11:59pmPT
  • Applicants will be notified of acceptance by Friday, June 28 
  • Applicant participation must confirm by Monday, July 1 at 11:59pmPT
Upon completion certificates of participation to add to your CV will be provided.

Note: AMSA Institutes utilize Google Classrooms. A personal Gmail address is required to participate (a Gmail address provided by your school will not work). Confirmed Institute participants will receive access to the Classroom on Tuesday, July 2. Materials to be reviewed prior to the start of the Institute will be included.

For more information email Dr. Jeff Koetje (jkoetje@amsa.org) and Becky Martin (bmartin@amsa.org)
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Please provide a short reflection on how you have been and/or are currently involved in reproductive health, rights, and justice. Include what interests, aspirations, or curiosities you have about providing abortion care in your future as a physician. (suggested limit 150-200 words) *
Loretta Ross, one of the 12 Mothers of Reproductive Justice, Human Rights Advocate, and 2022 MacArthur Fellow, connects reproductive rights and justice with human rights. She reminds us "social justice issues are prevalent in lives of people before pregnancy," and calls us to seeing people's "entire world through the human rights framework."

In his thought-provoking JAMA Viewpoint The Moral Determinants of Health Don Berwick, MD, MPP,  President Emeritus and Senior Fellow, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, and and former administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, reminds us: "Healers are called to heal. When the fabric of communities upon which health depends is torn, then healers are called to mend it."    

Compose a question you would ask in a Q/A panel discussion with these two vital voices both calling for health justice:
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In his trailblazing book Doing Democracy: The MAP Model for Organizing Social Movements the sage Bill Moyer defines stages and roles in social movements and introduces 4 roles required for success. Please review The Four Roles of Social Activism and mark below which one you identify with most. (Source: The Commons: Social Change Library) *
Please reflect upon the role you identify with above, speaking to how you see connections to advocating for reproductive health and justice for all (100-250 words): *
Local Event Description - If you already have a general idea for a local event you'd like to develop with support from the AMSA Reproductive Health Project, please provide a short description. (250 word limit)
Please mark your availability to attend either the Summer A or Summer B AMSA 2024 Abortion Care & Reproductive Justice Institute, and to make travel arrangements.

There is NO cost for selected applicants to participate in the Institute, scholarships cover related expenses and provide reimbursement stipends for travel.

Note: If you have flexibility both date sets we can assign you to Summer A or B based on availability. *
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AMSA Abortion Care & Reproductive Justice Institutes are Safe Spaces. Voices of All Participants are Valued.

I understand the Institute will address matters that may be upsetting or distressing due to the nature of reproductive injustices, and the necessity of discussing topics such as white supremacy, racism, anti-Black racism and anti-Indigeneity, misogyny and misogynoir, homophobia and transphobia, and experiences of violence rooted in systemic oppression.  All conversations will be conducted with respect. Dehumanization of people through language, attitudes, and behaviors will not be tolerated.
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