What you’ll learn to do
This interactive workshop provides women’s health practitioners with an evidence-based overview of contemporary abortion care across diverse clinical settings. Participants will explore global and Asia-Pacific abortion trends, including incidence, legislation, and access to care, with consideration of the social, legal, and health-system factors influencing service provision. The program includes a review of abortion methods across gestations, with a focus on practical management of first- and second-trimester medical abortion complications, no-ultrasound and very early medical abortion, and complications associated with surgical abortion.
Through case-based discussion and a hands-on manual vacuum aspiration workshop, participants will strengthen clinical knowledge, procedural understanding, and decision-making skills relevant to everyday practice. The workshop is designed to support clinicians in delivering safe, patient-centred, and evidence-informed abortion care across a range of practice environments.
Learning objectives
Participants will:
- Understand the importance of medical and surgical abortion access for women and girls
- Identify and manage complications associated with first- and second-trimester medical and surgical abortion, including care in very early and no-ultrasound medical abortion contexts.
- Demonstrate practical understanding of manual vacuum aspiration techniques and apply clinical reasoning to complex abortion care scenarios through case-based discussion.
Who should attend?
Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, Trainees, Midwives, and other healthcare professionals involved in the care of termination of pregnancy.
Participants will gain insight into integrating compassionate communication with clinical decision-making, while learning from regional leaders in Maternal–Fetal Medicine.
