Impact of the United States Supreme court Dobbs versus Jackson Health Women’s Organization Decision on Abortion Curricula in United States Medical Schools
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This study investigated the effect of the reversal of Roe versus Wade, with the 2022 United States (U.S.) Supreme Court Dobbs1 decision, on medical school reproductive health curriculum in U.S. An electronic survey was distributed to 248 U.S. medical school obstetrics and gynecology clerkship directors in March 2023 to assess faculty demographics, reproductive health topics included in medical school curriculum and challenges in abortion education after Dobbs. One hundred forty-eight faculty completed the survey (60% response rate) from 40 states and the District of Columbia; 45% of respondents were from states with abortion restrictions in the first and second trimesters. There were no significant changes in curricular content during the months following Dobbs. Thematic analysis of text responses indicates concerns about legal implications of teaching, state audits and restrictions on materials, as well as limits on abortion education in medical schools in states with restrictive abortion laws, even prior to Dobbs. PRECIS: In the months following the Dobbs decision, there was no change in abortion curricula in pre-clerkship courses or Obstetrics and Gynecology clerkship in U.S. medical schools.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.005 | 0.025 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".