Scaling Preservice Training in Comprehensive Contraception and Abortion Care and Research across Ethiopia

Abstract

This retrospective case study examines a five-year project scaling preservice training of comprehensive contraception and abortion care across nine Ethiopian schools of medicine and midwifery beginning in July 2014. It captures lessons learned from implementing the framework and share them with other schools and health ministries planning to strengthen contraception and abortion preservice training and research. The case study is based on semi-structured interviews conducted in July–December 2018 with 19 individuals who held faculty roles in the partner schools or staff roles with the Center for International Reproductive Health Training team in Ethiopia or Michigan. It also draws from document analysis of internal project files from across the full project period and participant observation by the case study authors, who were each involved in various stages of implementation. The case study is also available at http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.mpub11627346. This case study is shared under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial No-Derivatives License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.