What's happening
This bill requires hospitals with certain medical residency programs to provide family planning and abortion training, with exemptions for religious or moral objections.
Why it matters
Strengthens training requirements for OB/GYN, internal medicine, and women’s health residents. by mandating structured education in all forms of family planning—including contraception, sterilization, and managing complications—ensuring future doctors are broadly equipped to provide comprehensive reproductive healthcare.
Mandates hands-on abortion training. for residents, except those with religious or moral objections, which could lead to more providers with necessary clinical skills to safely perform abortions, addressing potential provider shortages and improving access to care.
Requires hospitals to facilitate alternative training. for residents who do not object to abortion if the primary institution restricts such training, ensuring that personal or institutional beliefs do not limit access to critical medical education or compromise training standards.
Ties compliance to hospital funding. , making hospitals ineligible for certain reimbursements if they do not offer the required training, thereby creating a strong financial incentive for institutions to comply and prioritize comprehensive reproductive healthcare education.
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Require OB-GYN Residency Training
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Require OB-GYN Training for Residents
In Assembly Committee · Health · Sponsor Deborah Glick
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STATE OF NEW YORK
4813
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 26, 2019
Introduced by Sen. PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed 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 complications of abortion. Furthermore, such residency programs shall have
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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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Title of bill
An act to amend the public health law, in relation to medical residency training
Purpose or general idea of bill
To require hospitals, which receive reimbursement for medical residency training, to provide for training in all methods of family planning including induced abortions except for residents with moral or religious objections.
Summary of specific provisions
Amends Section 2801-h of the public health law. Any hospital which receives reimbursement pursuant to the provisions of this article and which offers allopathic or osteopathic medical resident training in obstetrics, gynecology, family practice, internal medicine, or women's health shall provide training which follows the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education Special Requirements for Obstetrics-Gynecolo- gy or the American Osteopathic Association Special Requirements for Obstetrics-Gynecology. The program must provide a structured didactic and clinical training experience in all methods of family planning.
Experience with induced abortion must be part of residency training, except for residents with moral or religious objections. This education can be provided outside the institution. Experience with management of complications of abortions must be provided to all residents. If a resi- dency program has a religious, moral or legal restriction, which prohib- its the residents from performing abortions within the institution, the program must insure that the residents receive a satisfactory education and experience managing the complications of abortion. Furthermore, such residency programs must 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.
Any hospital that fails to follow the provisions of this section shall be ineligible for reimbursement under the provisions of this article.
Justification
This legislation was prompted by the near disappearance of routine abortion training from ob/gyn residency programs and the resultant provider shortage that often impedes and sometimes prevents women from exercising their basic right to terminate a pregnancy.
This legislation mirrors the unanimously adopted policy of the Accredi- tation Council on Graduate Medical Education. This bill would provide a fiscal penalty, lack of reimbursement, for a failure to provide the required training.
Even though abortion services are more available in New York than in other states, only 19% of our ob/gyn programs routinely train their residents in the abortion procedure. Furthermore, we continue to witness the results of the continuing shortage in our state: 25 counties have no abortion provider, New York experienced the second highest numerical loss of providers in the country from 1988-1992, and Planned Parenthood
of New York City reports having had to reschedule appointments when a substitute provider cannot be found.
Prior legislative history
2017-18: 57366 - REFERRED TO HEALTH 2015-16: A3693 referred to health 2013-14: A.3903 Referred to Health 2011-2012: A.2944 Referred to Health 2009-10: A.2715 Referred to Health 2007-08: A.2266 referred to Health 2005-06: A.5441 - Referred to Health 2003-04: A.947 - Referred to Health 2002: A.2411 - Reported from Health to Rules 2000: 5.2290 - Referred to Health/ A.4054 Referred to Health 1998: A.7081-A referred to Health
Fiscal implications
None.
Effective date
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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