{"id":5900,"date":"2015-02-10T09:00:21","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T14:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm\/?p=5900"},"modified":"2015-02-10T09:00:21","modified_gmt":"2015-02-10T14:00:21","slug":"iuds-can-be-practical-for-teenagers-but-pediatricians-may-lack-training-in-their-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/2015\/02\/10\/iuds-can-be-practical-for-teenagers-but-pediatricians-may-lack-training-in-their-use\/","title":{"rendered":"IUDs Can Be Practical for Teenagers, but Pediatricians May Lack Training in their Use"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Washington Post<\/h3>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/profiles.bu.edu\/display\/44200723\">Mandy Coles<\/a>, MD, MPH, pediatrics<\/h4>\n<p>When Wendy Swanson started out as a pediatrician eight years ago, it never crossed her mind to bring up the option of intrauterine devices \u2014 an insertable form of long-acting contraception \u2014 when she had her regular birth-control discussions with teenage patients who were sexually active.<\/p>\n<h3>Expert quote:<\/h3>\n<p>But it\u2019s hard to know when or how this might happen, said Mandy Coles, a co-author of the JAMA editorial and an adolescent medicine physician and assistant professor of pediatrics at Boston University School of Medicine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe bottom line is this is going to take more time and advocacy and research to improve training,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/health-science\/iuds-can-be-practical-for-teenagers-but-pediatricians-may-lack-training-in-their-use\/2015\/02\/06\/000edd50-a335-11e4-9f89-561284a573f8_story.html\">full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Post Mandy Coles, MD, MPH, pediatrics When Wendy Swanson started out as a pediatrician eight years ago, it never crossed her mind to bring up the option of intrauterine devices \u2014 an insertable form of long-acting contraception \u2014 when she had her regular birth-control discussions with teenage patients who were sexually active. Expert quote: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7398,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[126],"tags":[150],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5900"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7398"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}