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- Title
Access to infertility care in a low-resource setting: bridging the gap through resident and fellow education in a New York City public hospital.
- Authors
Blakemore, Jennifer K.; Maxwell, Susan M.; Hodes-Wertz, Brooke; Goldman, Kara N.
- Abstract
Purpose: Improving access to care is an issue at the forefront of reproductive medicine. We sought to describe how one academic center, set in the background of a large and diverse metropolitan city, cares for patients with extremely limited access to reproductive specialists. Methods: The NYU Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility (REI) Fellowship program provides a "fellow-run clinic" within Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital Center, which is led by the REI fellows and supervised by the REI attendings of the NYU Langone Health system. A description of the history of the hospital as well as the logistics of the fertility clinic is provided as a logistical template for implementation. Results: The fellow-run fertility clinic at Bellevue hospital is held on two half days per month seeing approximately 150 new patients per year. The fertility workup, counseling, surgery, as well as ovulation induction, and early pregnancy management are offered within the construct of the fellowship and residency at NYU. Barriers to care and ways to circumvent those barriers are discussed in detail. Conclusion: By utilizing the ambition and construct of the OB/GYN programs, we greatly improve care for an otherwise underserved patient population by offering an efficient and optimal infertility workup and treatment in a population that would otherwise be without care. We utilize the framework of graduate medical education to provide autonomy, experience, and mentorship to both residents and fellows in our programs in an effort to provide a solution to combating inequity in infertility care.
- Subjects
MANHATTAN (New York, N.Y.); BELLEVUE (Wash.); PUBLIC hospitals; FERTILITY clinics; URBAN hospitals; INDUCED ovulation; INFERTILITY; GRADUATE medical education; ENDOCRINOLOGY of human reproduction; REPRODUCTIVE health
- Publication
Journal of Assisted Reproduction & Genetics, 2020, Vol 37, Issue 7, p1545
- ISSN
1058-0468
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10815-020-01781-y