Women's Health and Contraceptive Practices of Army Physician Assistants.

Conclusion: Most study respondents practiced in a troop-based primary care clinic and most reported experience as a deployed health care providers. Although most respondents indicated comfort discussing combined hormonal contraception and depo medroxyprogesterone, fewer reported comfort discussing long-acting reversible and emergency contraception. Only a minority of respondents reported prior training to place the copper or levonorgestrel intrauterine device or contraceptive implant and, of those trained, most had not placed a device for which they were trained in the preceding 12 months. Chlamydia and cervical cancer screening were offered by most respondents but was not universally offered among the respondents. These findings are consistent with our previous study evaluating women's health knowledge among general medical officers and highlight a need for improved training in the field of women's health for physician assistants serving the active duty population. PMID: 30137489 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Military Medicine - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Mil Med Source Type: research