midwest access project Information

Midwest Access Project (MAP) envisions a society in which every person has access to patient-centered, quality reproductive health care within their community. Our mission is to improve access to reproductive health care by training providers in comprehensive sexual and reproductive health including contraception, pregnancy options counseling, miscarriage, and abortion. As a Midwestern hub for training and advocacy, MAP fills gaps in medical education and clinical training, reducing barriers to care. MAP’s Individual Clinical Training program arranges individually-tailored rotations for physicians, advanced practice clinicians, nurses, and students/trainees of these professions ; training range from one-day observations to month-long, hands-on rotations. Topics include: contraception, pregnancy options counseling, abortion, and miscarriage management. MAP trainees come from around the United States, motivated to provide comprehensive reproductive healthcare to their patients but lacking access to the necessary preparatory training. MAP is the only reproductive health training organization nationwide that links and directly coordinates elective reproductive training opportunities for "opt-in" trainees. Since its founding in 2017, MAP has provided individual clinical training to over 220 health care professionals. MAP’s trainees are spread among its network of rural and urban partner clinical training sites, allowing MAP to host multiple trainees at once, to use alternate sites when a trainer becomes unavailable, and to expose trainees to different care models and to adequate practical experience. MAP’s training partners are established, high-quality clinics in Illinois, Minnesota and Nebraska, including at Planned Parenthood, Whole Woman's Health and University of Chicago Ryan Center. To learn more, visit https://midwestaccessproject.org/what-we-do/individual-clinical-training/