What's happening
This bill requires New York hospitals offering certain medical residencies to provide comprehensive family planning and abortion training, with exemptions for moral or religious objections.
Why it matters
Ensures comprehensive reproductive health training. By mandating that residencies in obstetrics, gynecology, internal medicine, or women’s health include both didactic and hands-on clinical experience in all methods of family planning (including contraception and sterilization), the bill aims to ensure that future doctors are thoroughly trained in these essential healthcare skills.
Requires abortion training with opt-out for personal beliefs. The legislation balances training requirements with respect for individual conscience by making abortion training a standard part of residency, but allowing residents to opt out due to moral or religious objections. However, all residents—regardless of beliefs—must still be trained in managing complications related to abortion.
Impacts hospital funding and compliance. Hospitals that do not comply with these training standards risk losing state reimbursement, providing a strong financial incentive for institutions to offer comprehensive reproductive health training or risk significant funding losses.
Addresses gaps due to institutional restrictions. If a residency program’s affiliated hospital has religious, moral, or legal barriers to performing abortions, the bill requires that arrangements be made for residents (who do not object) to receive appropriate abortion training at another institution, ensuring training access is not impeded by institutional policies.
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Require OB-GYN Training for Residents
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History
- Referred to health
- Referred to health
Companion bill
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Require OB-GYN Residency Training
In Senate Committee · Health · Sponsor Kevin S. Parker
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STATE OF NEW YORK
1152
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 14, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. GLICK, JAFFEE, GOTTFRIED -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. DINOWITZ, PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to medical residency training
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding a new section 2801-i to read as follows:
§ 2801-i. Medical resident training; certain required training. 1. Any hospital which receives any reimbursement pursuant to the provisions of this article and which offers allopathic or osteopathic medical resident training in obstetrics, gynecology, internal medicine or women's health shall provide training that follows the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education or the American Osteopathic Association special requirements for obstetrics-gynecology. The program shall provide a structured didactic and clinical training experience in all methods of family planning. Topics shall include all reversible methods of contraception, including natural methods, as well as sterilization. The program shall include experience in management of complications as well as training in the performance of these procedures. Such education can be provided outside the institution, in an appropriate facility, under the supervision of appropriately trained faculty.
2. Experience with induced abortion shall be part of residency training, except for residents with moral or religious objections. Such education can be provided outside the institution. Experience with management of complications of abortion shall be provided to all residents. If a residency program has a religious, moral or legal restriction which prohibits the residents from performing abortions within the institution, the program shall insure that the residents receive a satisfactory education and experience managing the compli-
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
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cations of abortion. Furthermore, such residency programs shall have mechanisms which insure that residents in their program who do not have a religious or moral objection receive education and experience in performing abortion at another institution.
3. Any hospital which fails to follow the provisions of this section shall be ineligible for reimbursement under the provisions of this article.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the first of September next succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.
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