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2/18- Health Education Documents due for I&E
2/19- Front Desk/Billing Conference Call
2/26- CVR & Web Reports Webinar
3/3- I&E Meeting
3/19- MFPA Conference Call |
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Yesterday was not your defining moment. The calendar moved forward: why not you?
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Teens Text Sex
If you're looking for a new resource for teens (and parents) about sex, love, and relationships, check out Teens Text Sex by Rebecca Griesse and Jacqueline Corcoran. Teens Text Sex features questions and answers from the Alexandria Campaign on Adolescent Pregnancy's (ACAP) teen text message line. Questions and answers focus on several different topics areas including decision making, preventing pregnancy, birth control, STIs, relationships, and sex. While written with a teen audience in mind, this book may serve as a conversation starter between parents and their children. Teens Text Sex is available on Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble, all proceeds go to ACAP. |
| What R Teens Learning from Sext-Ed? | |  What R Teens Learning from Sext-Ed? Teens spend about the same amount of time on social media that they do in school - seven and a half hours per day, on average. In fact, 93 percent of teens own or have access to a computer and 78 percent own a cell phone, nearly half of which are smart phones. Accordingly, teens are increasingly getting information, formally and informally, through social media and on electronic devices. This includes information about sexual and reproductive health. Many teens receive research-based online sex education that aims to prevent negative health outcomes, such as unintended pregnancy and STDs. However, some less trustworthy sources may negatively influence teens by exposing them to sexually explicit material or by promoting misleading or untrue information about sexual and reproductive health. Social media presents an opportunity to provide teens and young adults with helpful and age-appropriate information at their fingertips, but we need to know more about these digital sources of sex education and their effects on teens' attitudes and behaviors. |
| HPV Vaccine Does Not Lead to Riskier Sex for Women | |
Some Americans have long held concerns that giving teens an HPV vaccine will cause them to engagein more unprotected sex, but a new study shows the vaccine won't make a difference for women: They are likely to engage in sex the same way they would otherwise. Researchers used health insurance claims to see whether STDs among females who were vaccinated increased compared with those who were not. (Gnomes News, 2/10) |
| Why Teen Girls Aren't Using IUDs | |  Why Teen Girls Aren't Using IUDs
When Wendy Sue Swanson started out as a pediatrician, it never crossed her mind to bring up the option of IUDs when she had birth-control discussions with teenage patients. Some pediatricians and other doctors worry they aren't properly prepared to make this form of birth control available. Experts say this has to change, starting during medical residencies, especially among pediatricians who will treat teenagers. (The Atlantic, 2/12)
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Contraception Fact Sheets
Use these fact sheets to learn how contraception methods work and how to use them. Effectiveness, benefits, potential side effects, disadvantages, risks, and where a person can get the method are covered. In addition, the fact sheets cover abstinence, breastfeeding, and emergency contraception.
Rapid Assessment: Safe Contraceptive Initiation. Your Five-Minute Guide to the Use of the U.S. MEC Wheel
Watch this five-minute video highlighting the U.S. Medical Eligibility Criteria Wheel, a quick, easy way to assess risk factors for contraceptive methods.
New Cervical Health Webinars
Check out two new 30-minute cervical health webinars featuring Dr. Kevin Ault! Both courses offer 0.5 contact hours. Continuing education (CE) expires June 30.
- Management of Abnormal Pap Smears reviews key gynecologic and cervical cytology terms, describes the management of abnormal pap smears across age groups, and discusses patient follow-up after colposcopy and/or biopsy.
- Current Role of Cervical Cytology and HPV Testing to Prevent Cervical Cancer reviews current screening guidelines and incorporates the most current American Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology/The American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ASCCP/ACOG) consensus guidelines for the appropriate use of screening cytology and human papillomavirus (HPV) co-testing.
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