Family planning is a voluntary act to prevent, delay or terminate a pregnancy. UNM provides research, education and expert clinical care to help people maintain reproductive health and prevent unintended pregnancies.
Our vision is to empower women and girls in the Southwest through optimal reproductive health. We believe no woman can be free unless she can choose when and how many children to have.
At UNM, we have a long history of removing barriers to family planning that aren’t based on evidence. We know well the public health burden of unsafe abortion and the suffering of women who experience it. When women have realistic ways to limit childbearing, family size always falls, and infant and maternal lives are saved.
We encourage all residents interested in applying for a fellowship in Complex Family Planning to become members of the Society of Family Planning.
The UNM Center for Reproductive Health includes board-certified physicians who have extensive experience in providing personalized reproductive health care, as well as highly trained nurses, fellows, residents, medical assistants and administrative personnel.
Our clinicians provide:
We are a Center of Experience for complex Nexplanon removals.
Our research aims to bring family planning back into international discussion and improve access and availability of all family planning care.
Research focus areas include:
Receive exceptional training as a resident or fellow with expert faculty in the University of New Mexico’s Complex Family Planning Division.
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Empower women through optimal reproductive health care. UNM OB/GYN residents receive a comprehensive reproductive health care education through the Kenneth J. Ryan Residency Training Program.
OB/GYN residents on the family planning rotation receive:
When you complete your OB/GYN residency at UNM, you will experience first-rate family planning training by fellowship-trained, nationally recognized leaders in the field.
As the sole academic referral institution in a minority-majority state, you will deliver vital reproductive health care services to underserved and ethnically diverse patient populations.
UNM maintains clinical rotation partnerships with local Planned Parenthood health centers. Our welcoming and fully equipped clinical training site, the UNM Center for Reproductive Health, is a full-spectrum family planning clinic.
As part of your training, you will observe and participate in patient care alongside UNM Complex Family Planning clinicians. Our faculty provide:
The Ryan Residency Program is a national program launched in 1999 in response to the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education mandate that OB/GYN residency education include access to opt-out abortion training. Our goal is to improve and formalize training in all aspects of contraception and uterine evacuation, including pregnancy termination, for OB/GYN residents.
An opt-out rotation in abortion and contraception means training in pregnancy termination is an expected and scheduled part of residency education. Residents can opt out of participating in pregnancy termination. However, participation is still expected in contraception counseling, pre/post-abortion care training, and management of early pregnancy loss.
Learn more about UNM’s Complex Family Planning faculty. Meet our faculty, fellows and division chief.