Guest guest Posted November 27, 2011 Report Share Posted November 27, 2011 I am in touch with a NFP-only medical student. She is possibly interested in pediatrics and is thinking about being a neonatologist. She had an awful experience during a pediatrics rotation in adolescent medicine where they were putting IUD;s in girls, mocking the Catholic faith and abstinence etc.Are any of you aware of a Peds training program in which she could opt out of contraception and abortion referral? (as is done in most adolescent medicine rotations I would guess..)Thanks! D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 27, 2011 Report Share Posted November 27, 2011 Thanks!!! DSubject: RE: Pediatric ResidencyTo: nfpprofessionals Date: Sunday, November 27, 2011, 7:18 PM D,I forwarded your request to Dr Byrne, long-time pediatrician and neonatologist in Toledo. He responded as follows:Dear Steve, Pediatric training at Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital at St. Louis University should do what she needs. If there are questions, she should get in touch with me. AVE MARIA pbyrne@...To: nfpprofessionals From: mdavmd@...Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2011 15:23:10 -0800Subject: Pediatric Residency I am in touch with a NFP-only medical student. She is possibly interested in pediatrics and is thinking about being a neonatologist. She had an awful experience during a pediatrics rotation in adolescent medicine where they were putting IUD;s in girls, mocking the Catholic faith and abstinence etc.Are any of you aware of a Peds training program in which she could opt out of contraception and abortion referral? (as is done in most adolescent medicine rotations I would guess..)Thanks! D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 29, 2011 Report Share Posted November 29, 2011 I'm in a normal, academic center family medicine program that does full spectrum care with lots and lots of general well-woman visits or post-partum contraceptive counselling.. and my residencey director has made it work with me. tell her to keep my e-mail address.. and she can e-mail with questions or situations as things come up during her training. you don't have to go to an NFP-only residency.. or even one that's heard of NFP-only doctors, to make it work. In a lot of ways, my decision to be NFP only is validating the choice to a bunch of secular people who would have thought it was only crazy people or bad doctors that chose that route. and, I'm doing an away elective on morally allowable fertility/gyn treatments right now.. and get to do a presentation to my department to show them everything that's in my arsenal as " back up " when I wouldn't want to prescribe the pill. I would really really really recommend that she keeps an open mind about where to go to residency.. and consider where she feels the best fit academically and socially with the residents and faculty before worrying about if they've ever heard of NFP-only medicine before. Also, she can think about bringing it up as a question during her interviews: " My conscience won't allow me to prescribe contraception, even to sexually active teens. How could your program work with me to get your patients the care you want without asking me to do something against my faith? " Or something like that.. however she words it. I'm not sure if I'd recommend doing that or not.. but she can decide for herself. I didn't do it, because I wasn't actually decided yet when I was interviewing... but things have worked out beautifully for me. God will lead her to where he wants her to be.. if she's open to it. And He can help her in whatever program she ends up in. AND.. it'll only apply to one rotation, teen " health " , that they might let her do an alternate learning experience (which is how my program handled my student " health " elective - which is basically all birth control). So, with pediatrics.. I wouldn't be as worried about it as with, for example - OBGYN. I would tell her too.. the people she'll probably have the most trouble with are Catholic doctors that don't follow the Church's teaching... those are the docs that I've gotten the most passionate and least charitable responses from. But, tell her to remember to speak the truth in love.. and if they get defensive, it's probably because they're judging themselves against your example.. not because they're actually mad at you. Love and courage to her!! ~Kirsten Thanks!!! D Subject: RE: Pediatric Residency To: nfpprofessionals Date: Sunday, November 27, 2011, 7:18 PM D,I forwarded your request to Dr Byrne, long-time pediatrician and neonatologist in Toledo. He responded as follows: Dear Steve, Pediatric training at Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital at St. Louis University should do what she needs. If there are questions, she should get in touch with me. AVE MARIA pbyrne@... To: nfpprofessionals From: mdavmd@...Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2011 15:23:10 -0800 Subject: Pediatric Residency I am in touch with a NFP-only medical student. She is possibly interested in pediatrics and is thinking about being a neonatologist. She had an awful experience during a pediatrics rotation in adolescent medicine where they were putting IUD;s in girls, mocking the Catholic faith and abstinence etc. Are any of you aware of a Peds training program in which she could opt out of contraception and abortion referral? (as is done in most adolescent medicine rotations I would guess..) Thanks! D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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